Scourge or whip (disciplina); brass chain with 7 pendant "tails" of wrapper brass wire; length 59 cm. cf. 2-33853, 2-33854, 2-48371, 2-48375.
Donor:
Zelia Nuttall
Collection place:
Mexico
Verbatim coll. place:
Mexico, unspecified
Culture or time period:
Mexican Historic (1521–present)
Collector:
Zelia Nuttall
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Placeholder record (no associated object)
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Accession date:
1905
Context of use:
3 curious objects pertaining to religious penance in convents and monasteries. Two (3-24268a,b) were worn next to skin around wrists or ankles, in self-torture. The scourge (3-24269) was used for flagellation until blood was drawn.
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)