Music sticks
- Museum number:
- 1-16604
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010016604
- Accession number:
- Acc.100S
- Description:
- Bundle of 12 arrow weed rods, fastened together by twine. Used to strike a basket as accompaniment to Chuchueche song.
- Donor:
- Anchora Hanyava [Mohave]
- Collection place:
- Needles, San Bernardino County, California
- Verbatim coll. place:
- California; San Bernardino; Needles
- Culture or time period:
- Mohave
- Collector:
- Anchora Hanyava [Mohave]
- Collection date:
- December 1910
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Percussion sticks
- Function:
- 5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
- Accession date:
- 1904-1930
- Context of use:
- Used to beat a basket while singing.
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Dimensions:
- length 76.5 centimeters
- Legacy documentation:
-