Rabbit stick

Museum number:

2-33066

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Accession number:

Acc.1341

Description:

Rabbit stick, 21 inches long.

Donor:

James F. Downs

Collection place:

Piñon, Navajo County, Arizona

Verbatim coll. place:

Arizona; Navajo; Pinon

Culture or time period:

Navajo

Collector:

James F. Downs

Collection date:

June 29, 1960

Object type:

ethnography

Function:

1.1 Hunting and Fishing

Accession date:

1960

Context of use:

Used by Navajo to throw at jackrabbits from horseback. Made of juniper just before hunt. Branch out with doubled bitted axe. Remaining stub knocked away with stone. (This stick was used on a hunt.)

Department:

Native US and Canada (except California)

Dimensions:

length 21 inches

Comment:

Used by Navajo to throw at jackrabbits from horseback. Made of juniper just before hunt. Branch out with doubled bitted ax. Remaining stub knocked away with stone. (This stick was used on a hunt.)

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