Fossil

Museum number:
2-5595
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Alternate number:
3823 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.88
Description:
Section of fossil cephalophod ("Buffalo Stone").
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Great Plains
Culture or time period:
Blood
Collector:
Mrs. Freeman and Philip Mills Jones
Collection date:
1903
Taxon:
Cephalopoda
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Fossils
Function:
5.2 Magic: Objects Associated with Practices reflecting confidence in the ability to manipulate supernatural agencies
Accession date:
1903
Context of use:
One of the ingredients of the medicine bundles; one of the most widely distributed sorts of "medicine"; they taught songs to their finders, giving them power to influence the buffalo; the small fossils, "little buffalos", were believed to have the power
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 8.5 inches
Comment:
Photo: 15-4399. References: Cf. Clark Wissler; Ceremonial Bundles of the Blackfoot Indians; AMNH; Anthropological Papers; Vol. VII, Part II. N.Y. 1912.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Fossil, accession number 2-5595, described as Section of fossil cephalophod ("Buffalo Stone").Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Fossil, accession number 2-5595, described as Section of fossil cephalophod ("Buffalo Stone").

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