Moustache-Stick
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1890
name: label: Donor Name
content: Romyn Hitchcock
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Illus. in USNM AR, 1890; fig. 77; p. 459; also in Rept, 1896; Pl. 19-20; p. 812."
label: Notes
content: Reference: Lowman, C. B. (2018), Marking Ownership on Ainu Objects: Three Museum Collections in the United States. Museum Anthropology, 41: 46-60. doi:10.1111/muan.12168 .
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 19.3 p. 149 of Fitzhugh, William W., and Chisato O. Dubreuil. 1999. Ainu: spirit of a northern people. [Washington, D.C.]: Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution in association with University of Washington Press. Identified there as a prayer stick (ikupasuy) - these objects were in the past erroneously identified as moustache (lifter) sticks. It has a central design (noshki) consisting of a double scroll motif; the marks (itokpa) at either end identify the owner.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 13 Oct 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Iturup Island (Yeterof, Etorofu), Kuril Islands, Japan / Russia, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Ainu, Yeterof (Iturup/Etorofu) Ainu
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 022393
label: USNM Number
content: E150698-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Prayer Stick
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 33 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 3.2 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 0.6 cm