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- Museum number:
- 1-12757
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010012757
- Alternate number:
- 2029 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.303, Acc.304, Acc.307, and Acc.310
- Description:
- Red string, twisted fiber (irs?), one skein.
- Donor:
- Samuel A. Barrett
- Collection place:
- Klamath Reservation, Klamath County, Oregon
- Culture or time period:
- Klamath Lake and Modoc
- Collector:
- Samuel A. Barrett
- Collection date:
- 1907
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 5.2 Magic: Objects Associated with Practices reflecting confidence in the ability to manipulate supernatural agencies
- Accession date:
- 1907
- Context of use:
- Tied about body of sick person. Ends are held by attendant and doctor throws a cap (kwa) at it with force. If it breaks, the patient will die, if the string holds the patient will live.
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Comment:
- Native name: "letc notc".
- Legacy documentation: