Plume
- Museum number:
- 1-10047
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010010047
- Alternate number:
- 154b (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.216, Acc.217, Acc.218, Acc.220, Acc.222, Acc.226, Acc.227, Acc.229, Acc.230, Acc.231, Acc.234, Acc.235, Acc.236, Acc.237, Acc.238, Acc.241, Acc.242, Acc.243, Acc.244, Acc.245, Acc.246, Acc.249, Acc.250, Acc.251, and Acc.254
- Description:
- Forked feather dance plume. Carried or worn in dances. This plume was used by women. 1-10047 and 1-10048 were a pair used by one dancer.
- Donor:
- Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett
- Collection place:
- West Point, Calaveras County, California
- Verbatim coll. place:
- California; Calaveras; West Point
- Culture or time period:
- Eastern Miwok
- Maker or artist:
- Ephe Cummings
- Collector:
- Samuel A. Barrett
- Collection date:
- 1906
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
- Accession date:
- 1906
- Context of use:
- Carried or worn in dances. This plume was used by women. 1-10047 and 1-10048 were a pair used by one dancer.
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Comment:
- Native name and meaning: "tiuka" - dance plume; "piuya" - the reed used in bangles. Remarks: Ephe Cummings...said that he did not know whether these plumes were used "in older times" (alternative reading of field notes might indicate that Mr. Cummings was not sure if the Miwok used the "piuya" reeds in their plumes in previous times). Photo: 15-4813. Published: Bureau of American Ethnology Bull. 78, fig. 21 page 268; Milw. Publ. Mus. Bull. v. 2, pl. 72.
- Legacy documentation:
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