Medicine Basket "Varsa" And Contents
date: label: Accession Date
content: 3 Oct 1902
label: Collection Date
content: 1902
name: label: Collector
content: Frank Russell
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "COLL. IN 1902. OBLONG BASKET WITH COVER, CONTAINS BUNCHES OF FEATHERS STICKS, ETC. USED IN CEREMONIES, MOCKING BIRD FEATHERS 45, PARROT 46, STICKS (CALENDAR?) 47; AMINA STICKS (I.E. OMINA OR PRAYER STICKS) 44." SEE B.A.E. 26TH ANNUAL REPORT, P. 145, FIG. 68B FOR PHOTO OF BASKET. SEE PLATE XIV, C, D, E, FOR PHOTOS OF PRAYER STICKS. SEE P. 107 FOR EXPLANATION OF PLATE XIV. AS OF 2000, THIS OBJECT CONSISTS OF BASKET AND LID, CLOTH TIE, AND CONTENTS CONSIST OF 3 BUNDLES OF PRAYER STICKS, AND THE REMAINS OF 4 (?) BADLY INSECT-DAMAGED BUNCHES OF FEATHERS. A TAG FOR CAT. # 218060 IS ALSO INSIDE BASKET, SO IT IS POSSIBLE SOME OF THE FEATHERS MAY ACTUALLY BE THAT CATALOGUE NUMBER (WHICH IS MISSING). - F. PICKERING 1-10-2000
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Oct 2015
label: Specimen Count
content: 5
place: label: Place
content: Sacaton, Gila River Reservation, Arizona, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Pima (Akimel O'odham; Akimel O'otham)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 039990
label: USNM Number
content: E218063-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket / Prayer Stick / Feather