Drawing

Museum number:
17-727
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21170000727
Accession number:
Acc.4407
Description:
Four male Pomo Indian dancers, all wearing flicker feather headbands; they are holding split stick rattles and cocoon rattles; all wear feather loincloth but only one loincloth is completely drawn (others are just outlined).
Donor:
Emmy Lou Packard
Collection place:
Covelo area, Round Valley, Mendocino County
Verbatim coll. place:
Pomo Indians from the Round Valley Reservation near Covelo.
Culture or time period:
Pomo
Maker or artist:
Bunner McFarland
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Drawings (visual works)
Accession date:
March 1, 1989
Department:
Drawings and paintings
Dimensions:
width 40.2 centimeters and height 23.2 centimeters
Title:
untitled (Title Subject)
Comment:
Mendocino Co., Grindstone. Round Valley Reservation did not have its own roundhouse. According to donor, the drawings were done by a 90+ year old man. See also 17-726. In pencil on reverse of drawing is written the following: "You set me to thinking of Pomo Dance costume so I made a detour north to Round Valley Indian Reservation at Covelo where there are some eighteen hundred much mixed bloods - and no roundhouse for dancing - At a place called Grindstone there is a big Roundhouse where Covelo Indians go to dance - they seemed to know nothing of the red flicker feather Big head dance rigelia [sic] - but used a pure white one - The red feather headbands here shown were common - also white shell beads in quantity - The sharp bone through the nose they verified also the hollow bones in the ears - Labarets [sic] and cheek plugs were common in prehistoric times with most California Indians as burials attest. I look forward to a return trip to Mendocino City to return your book - and of course I thank you so much for your kindness - You made it a very pleasant visit for a complete stranger - Please feel obliged to come and stay with us when you are in the Bay country - if you can stand our very simple open smoky fireplace way of liveing [sic] I sign myself Your Servant and Christs servant Bunner McFarland.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 4 titled Drawing, accession number 17-727, described as Four male Pomo Indian dancers, all wearing flicker feather headbands; they are holding split stick rattles and cocoon rattles; all wear feather loincloth but only one loincloth is completely drawn (others are just outlined).Hearst Museum object 2 of 4 titled Drawing, accession number 17-727, described as Four male Pomo Indian dancers, all wearing flicker feather headbands; they are holding split stick rattles and cocoon rattles; all wear feather loincloth but only one loincloth is completely drawn (others are just outlined).Hearst Museum object 3 of 4 titled Drawing, accession number 17-727, described as Four male Pomo Indian dancers, all wearing flicker feather headbands; they are holding split stick rattles and cocoon rattles; all wear feather loincloth but only one loincloth is completely drawn (others are just outlined).Hearst Museum object 4 of 4 titled Drawing, accession number 17-727, described as Four male Pomo Indian dancers, all wearing flicker feather headbands; they are holding split stick rattles and cocoon rattles; all wear feather loincloth but only one loincloth is completely drawn (others are just outlined).
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Drawing, accession number 17-727, described as Four male Pomo Indian dancers, all wearing flicker feather headbands; they are holding split stick rattles and cocoon rattles; all wear feather loincloth but only one loincloth is completely drawn (others are just outlined).Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Drawing, accession number 17-727, described as Four male Pomo Indian dancers, all wearing flicker feather headbands; they are holding split stick rattles and cocoon rattles; all wear feather loincloth but only one loincloth is completely drawn (others are just outlined).

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