Quirt
- Museum number:
- 2-5565
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020005565
- Alternate number:
- 3731 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.13 and Acc.88
- Description:
- Elkhorn handle. Hide carrying loop, beaded; hide double lash; red wool fringes.
- Donor:
- John Preston Stanley, Philip Mills Jones, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection place:
- Blackfoot Reservation, Canada
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Canada; Blackfoot Reservation
- Culture or time period:
- Blackfoot of Canada
- Collector:
- J. Disbury and Philip Mills Jones
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 1.4 Transportation
- Accession date:
- 1903 and August 1901
- Context of use:
- Carried by mounted men at all times; used also as weapons in a fight.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- length 39.5 centimeters
- Loans:
- S1979-1980 #32: Merritt College/Maurice Wolfe (January 14, 1980–May 6, 1980)
- Legacy documentation:
-