Standard model

Museum number:
1-13822
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.325
Description:
Wooden staff bound with red flannel fabric and ornamented with beads and a double row of hawk feathers.
Donor:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection place:
Needles, San Bernardino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; San Bernardino; Needles
Culture or time period:
Mohave
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
February 1908
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Accession date:
1908
Context of use:
War standard. A model of the sticks used in the "annual" or mourning ceremony.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 109 centimeters
Comment:
War Standards" Pl. 1 p. 13 Mohave Culture Items by Leslie Spier, Museum of No. Arizona.
Loans:
S1973-1974 #25: California State University, Chico (October 18, 1973–July 3, 1975)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Standard model, accession number 1-13822, described as Wooden staff bound with red flannel fabric and ornamented with beads and a double row of hawk feathers.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Standard model, accession number 1-13822, described as Wooden staff bound with red flannel fabric and ornamented with beads and a double row of hawk feathers.

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