Sacred stick, "kina-ra-rip"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 16 Jun 2005
name: label: Donor Name
content: National Museum of Natural History
notes: label: Notes
content: Stick with one pointed end, curly wood shavings on the other. According to Chisato Dubreuil, this is used to hold ceremonial mats or to hold offerings to the gods in the altar. Made for the 1999 NMNH exhibit "Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People" using traditional Ainu materials and techniques.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Japan, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Ainu
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2026093
label: USNM Number
content: E430635-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sacred Stick
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 21 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 2.5 cm