Wand

Museum number:
2-9939
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.460
Description:
Flat board with 2 carved handles on one end; painted kachina doll (unidentified type) on surface in black, white, and red; painted corn designs and other designs in black, white, red and yellow; feathers tied with string to 3 edges, missing from 2.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Arizona
Verbatim coll. place:
Arizona
Culture or time period:
Hopi
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection date:
1913
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Accession date:
1913
Context of use:
Kachina dance wand. Identified by Claude Sakyesva, July 31, 1960. Presumably used in kachina dance ceremony.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 52 centimeters and width 22 centimeters
Loans:
S1975-1976 #39: Department of Nutritional Sciences (UC Berkeley) (December 2, 1975–December 18, 1975)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Wand, accession number 2-9939, described as Flat board with 2 carved handles on one end; painted kachina doll (unidentified type) on surface in black, white, and red; painted corn designs and other designs in black, white, red and yellow; feathers tied with string to 3 edges, missing from 2.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Wand, accession number 2-9939, described as Flat board with 2 carved handles on one end; painted kachina doll (unidentified type) on surface in black, white, and red; painted corn designs and other designs in black, white, red and yellow; feathers tied with string to 3 edges, missing from 2.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Wand, accession number 2-9939, described as Flat board with 2 carved handles on one end; painted kachina doll (unidentified type) on surface in black, white, and red; painted corn designs and other designs in black, white, red and yellow; feathers tied with string to 3 edges, missing from 2.

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