Night chant yucca splinter

Museum number:
2-30260
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.185
Description:
4th "cigarette" painted blue to represent the South. Still on Yucca drying splinters.
Donor:
Estate of Washington Matthews
Collection place:
Southwestern United States
Verbatim coll. place:
Southwest
Culture or time period:
Navajo
Collector:
Washington Matthews
Collection date:
1884
Object type:
ethnography
Accession date:
1905
Context of use:
Used on night of 3rd day.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Comment:
See pp. 42, 137, 189 of Matthews "Night Chant" for further information.
Loans:
S1964-1965 #51: School of Public Health (UC Berkeley) (February 1, 1965–March 10, 1965)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Night chant yucca splinter, accession number 2-30260, described as 4th "cigarette" painted blue to represent the South. Still on Yucca drying splinters.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Night chant yucca splinter, accession number 2-30260, described as 4th "cigarette" painted blue to represent the South. Still on Yucca drying splinters.

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