Implement For Dressing Woman's Hair
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 May 1876
name: label: Collector
content: Olin D. Wheeler
label: Donor Name
content: Major John W. Powell
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "22539-41. CAT. NO. 22539: ILLUS.: HNDBK. OF N. AMER. INDIANS, VOL. 9, SOUTHWEST, FIG. 15, PG. 546." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "HAIR BOW.---MADE OF A TWIG BENT IN THE SHAPE OF AN OX-BOW. WORN BY MOKI (Hopi) MAIDENS. LENGTH, 7 3/4 INCHES; WIDTH, 7 3/4 INCHES. MOKI (Hopi) INDIANS (SHOSHONEAN STOCK), ARIZONA, 1876, 22,539. COLLECTED BY O. D. WHEELER. THIS CHARACTERISTIC APPARATUS IS USED IN DRESSING A MOKI (Hopi) MAIDEN'S HEAD, WHICH IS WOUND OVER THE BOW AND FASTENED BETWEEN IT AND THE HAIR, GIVING THE APPEARANCE OF TWO LARGE EARS OR WINGS ON THE SIDE OF THE HEAD."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Arizona, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Hopi
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 76A00060
label: USNM Number
content: E22539-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hair Ornament
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 19.68 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 19.68 cm