Fetish
- Museum number:
- 1-12480
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010012480
- Alternate number:
- 1698 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.303, Acc.304, Acc.307, and Acc.310
- Description:
- Fetish "Humming bird", fiber and feather.
- 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
- Object class:
- Fetishes
- Function:
- 5.2 Magic: Objects Associated with Practices reflecting confidence in the ability to manipulate supernatural agencies
- Accession date:
- 1907
- Context of use:
- Fetish hung up by doctor in house of sick person and sung to. The doctor works for this bird and never refuses to do what the bird tells him to do.
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Legacy documentation:
-