Dance cap

Museum number:

1-825

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Alternate number:

2825 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.19

Description:

Yellow hammer.

Donor:

Phoebe Apperson Hearst

Collection place:

Hoopa Valley, Humboldt County, California

Verbatim coll. place:

California; Humboldt; Hoopa Valley

Culture or time period:

Hupa

Collector:

Philip Mills Jones

Collection date:

July 27, 1901

Object type:

ethnography

Function:

5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies

Accession date:

December 7, 1901

Context of use:

For brush dance.

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

Loans:

S1980-1981 #15: Clarence E. Smith Museum of Anthropology (CSU East Bay) (September 23, 1980–November 18, 1980) and S1987-1988 #47: Mary Keegan (June 27, 1988–June 29, 1988)

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