Feathered Staff
date: label: Accession Date
content: 25 May 1955
name: label: Collector
content: Mrs. Alma Phelps
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Chiricahua Apache, Geronimo's Band, Oklahoma. Shaft of cedar 65 1/2" long wrapped with blue flannel. Feather pendant at base. Wooden foreshaft inset in end of shaft is 56" long. It is wrapped with red flannel, covered in three places with wrappings of dark blue seed beads. Pendant feather (poor condition) and hair. Dr. Harrington states: 'This specimen is very old and has hanging form it tufts of human hair. The wood of the stick is cedar. Mrs. Alma Phelps who is now (1947) a very aged woman, obtained the feathered stick in Texas.' .. It is 'very old.'" Leland Michael Darrow, Tribal Historian for the Fort Sill Apache Tribe, questions the Chiricahua attribution, 9-28-2007.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 27 Apr 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Oklahoma, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Apache, Chiricahua (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 206466
label: USNM Number
content: E392950-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Staff