Medicine Wand
date: label: Accession Date
content: 14 Sep 1898
name: label: Collector
content: Emile Granier
label: Donor Name
content: Emile Granier
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "STAFF COVERED WITH CLOTH AT THE END OF A DART AND CRESCENT OF BONE. DECORATED WITH PAINT AND BEADS. LOANED TO RENWICK CELEBRATIONS 2/11/1982. RETURNED 6/1983. ILLUS.: P.166, PL. 214C, CELEBRATIONS CATALOGUE, SMITHSONIAN PRESS, 1982. [From Celebrations catalogue:] Ghost Dance Staff, ca, 1885-97, Northern Arapaho Indians; Wyoming. wood, hide, glass beads, cloth, sinew, bone. 30 x 5 x 3/4 (76.2 x 12.7 x 1.9). Though little is known about the exact use of Arapaho staffs, it is believed that such staffs were used during the Ghost Dance to stimulate hypnotic trances. Among the Arapaho, the arrow frequently symbolizes lightning."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Jan 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Arapaho (Inunaina, Hinono'ei)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 034005
label: USNM Number
content: E200536-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Staff