Skin

Museum number:
2-5240
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020005240
Alternate number:
50 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.131 and Acc.52
Description:
Wildcat skin, complete.
Donor:
David Ives Bushnell Jr., G. B. Gordon, Phoebe Apperson Hearst, and W. C. Farabee
Collection place:
Central Plains, Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Central Plains
Culture or time period:
Umoⁿhoⁿ
Collector:
Francis La Flesche
Collection date:
1901-1902
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:
1904 and September 8, 1902
Context of use:
Used as a mat and a covering for the Sacred Pipes in the "Wa-Wan" ceremony. Goes with 2-5239-43.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 1 meters
Comment:
Exhibited: UCLMA, "Plains Indians", 1971. References: see "The Hako", BAE Rep. XXII, part II, for detailed description of use. 27th Annual Report -BAE- "The Omaha Tribe", Fletcher & LaFlesche, p. 377.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Skin, accession number 2-5240, described as Wildcat skin, complete.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Skin, accession number 2-5240, described as Wildcat skin, complete.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Skin, accession number 2-5240, described as Wildcat skin, complete.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Skin, accession number 2-5240, described as Wildcat skin, complete.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Skin, accession number 2-5240, described as Wildcat skin, complete.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Skin, accession number 2-5240, described as Wildcat skin, complete.

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