Medicine stone
- Museum number:
- 2-9446
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020009446
- Alternate number:
- 2069 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.382
- Description:
- Nearly cylindrical fragment of brown colored stone.
- Donor:
- Blanche Trask
- Collection place:
- Arizona
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Arizona
- Culture or time period:
- Hopi
- Collector:
- Blanche Trask
- Collection date:
- unknown
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 5.2 Magic: Objects Associated with Practices reflecting confidence in the ability to manipulate supernatural agencies
- Accession date:
- 1910
- Context of use:
- Called "medicine stone" by the zuni. From the buckskin pouch of an old Moki.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Legacy documentation:
-