Whip or scourge

Museum number:
2-33853
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
7-1495 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.707
Description:
6 pendant "tails" attached to linked chain. Made of iron links and iron segments of wrapped wire.
Donor:
California State Mining Bureau
Collection place:
Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico
Verbatim coll. place:
New Mexico; Rio Grande Valley
Culture or time period:
Spanish American
Collector:
N. P. Britton
Collection date:
1936
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Whips (striking tools)
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Accession date:
1936
Context of use:
Used in rites of the Penitente Brotherhood (Los Hermanos Penitentes) during Easter Week for self-torture; used in New Mexico, Mexico, and Colorado as well as in Spain.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 61.6 centimeters
Comment:
cf. 2-48371, 48375, 3-24268-69.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Whip or scourge, accession number 2-33853, described as 6 pendant "tails" attached to linked chain. Made of iron links and iron segments of wrapped wire.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Whip or scourge, accession number 2-33853, described as 6 pendant "tails" attached to linked chain. Made of iron links and iron segments of wrapped wire.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Whip or scourge, accession number 2-33853, described as 6 pendant "tails" attached to linked chain. Made of iron links and iron segments of wrapped wire.

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