Sacred-Pack "Waxobe"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 7 Jan 1913
name: label: Collector
content: Francis La Flesche
label: Donor Name
content: Francis La Flesche
notes: label: Notes
content: Records indicate this was purchased from Kawahodse (Osage), Wind Clan.
label: Notes
content: See p. 53 in Smithsonian Annual Report for 1913, where it notes that Francis La Flesche procured "... the reed-whistle bundle of the Wind gens ...".
label: Notes
content: Pipe illus. p. 21 in Bailey, Garrick A., and Daniel C. Swan. 2004. Art of the Osage. Seattle: University of Washington Press/Saint Louis Art Museum. Identified there: "This sacred pipe once belonged to the people of the Wind clan. It was smoked to consecrate the decision to declare war. The white beads are made of shell, and the narrow tubes between the beads are made of hammered copper. Pieces of scalp and hair fragments are attached near the mouthpiece. The pipe's shaft represents the body, or torso, of "the symbolic man." The underside of the bowl depicts a face whose eyes are consecrated with red paint. The gaze of the symbolic man is remarkably subtle, yet very powerful as it looks upon future death and destruction. Prayers to Wakonta for a successful war party would be carried in the pipe's sacred smoke."
label: Notes
content: Per Dr. Thomas W. Kavanagh, 3-13-2013, the pipe associated with this bundle appears never to have been smoked.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 27 Jun 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 15
place: label: Place
content: Pawhuska, Osage County, Oklahoma, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Osage (Wazhazhe)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 054946
label: USNM Number
content: E276133-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Medicine Bundle / Pipe