Quirt
- Museum number:
- 2-5476
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020005476
- Alternate number:
- 3467 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.13
- Description:
- Elkhorn handle. Double lash beaded and fringed.
- 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
- Collection date:
- August 27, 1901
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 1.3 Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, 1.4 Transportation, and 1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control
- Accession date:
- 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 38 centimeters
- Legacy documentation:
-