Prayer stick

Museum number:
2-10490
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.543
Description:
Small, crooked stick.
Donor:
Alfred L. Kroeber, Elsie Clews Parsons, and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Zuni, Zuni Reservation, McKinley County
Verbatim coll. place:
Zuni
Culture or time period:
Zuni
Maker or artist:
Elsie Clews Parsons
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
1918
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:
1919
Context of use:
House prayer stick. Said to have been used in dance, but evidently part of a sort of prayer stick kept in the house rafters. It is placed in the corn store room either in the ground with the corn stacked over it or in the rafters above the corn. It is
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 29.5 centimeters
Comment:
No piece count on card.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Prayer stick, accession number 2-10490, described as Small, crooked stick.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Prayer stick, accession number 2-10490, described as Small, crooked stick.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Prayer stick, accession number 2-10490, described as Small, crooked stick.

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