Prayer stick

Museum number:
9-8959
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Accession number:
Acc.2472
Description:
Prayer stick (ikubashui: "drinking stick"), curved, bipointed piece of wood with curvilinear designs in relief on ground of incised diagonals. Length: 28 cm; prayerstick, libation wand; mistakenly called “moustache lifter.”
Donor:
Hiroaki Okada
Collection place:
Hokkaidō Prefecture, Hokkaido, Japan
Culture or time period:
Ainu
Collector:
Hiroaki Okada
Collection date:
before 1969
Materials:
Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Accession date:
1969
Context of use:
Prayerstick, libation wand; mistakenly called "moustache lifter
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
length 28 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Prayer stick, accession number 9-8959, described as Prayer stick (ikubashui: "drinking stick"), curved, bipointed piece of wood with curvilinear designs in relief on ground of incised diagonals. Length: 28 cm; prayerstick, libation wand; mistakenly called “moustache lifter.”
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Prayer stick, accession number 9-8959, described as Prayer stick (ikubashui: "drinking stick"), curved, bipointed piece of wood with curvilinear designs in relief on ground of incised diagonals. Length: 28 cm; prayerstick, libation wand; mistakenly called “moustache lifter.”

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