Prayerstick
date: label: Accession Date
content: 27 Apr 1897
name: label: Collector
content: Mrs Matilda C. Stevenson
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "TO WAR GODS. 2 FOUND 1/4/79-A +B. ONE PRAYERSTICK, 176575 C, FOUND IN THE YUCCA WRAPPINGS AT THE BASE OF THE AHAYU:DA WAR GOD CAT. 176544 WAS DEACCESSIONED AND RETURNED TO THE PUEBLO OF ZUNI, STILL ATTACHED TO THE WAR GOD'S WRAPPINGS. LLE 3/1987 SEE ACCESSION FILE FOR FURTHER INFO. 176575. TWO PRAYERSTICKS REMAIN IN THE COLLECTION, A & B. THESE WERE NOT FOUND ASSOCIATED WITH THE WAR GOD FIGURE AND SO WERE NOT DEACCESSIONED. NEGATIVE NOS: 176575A: 89-7590 TO -7595CS, 176575B: 89-7588CS, 176575C: 89-7315 TO 7319CS, 176575A&B: 89-7581 TO -7587,AND 89-7589CS." INVENTORIED 1979." 176575C WAS DEACCESSIONED FOR REPATRIATION TO THE PUEBLO OF ZUNI ON 14 MARCH 1987.
label: Notes
content: One item (C) in this catalog number has been repatriated. 2 other items (A-B) remain. The items in this catalog number are associated with the items in cat #176544. 1881 was the year the items were collected.
label: Notes
content: This catalog number contains 3 items. 1 of the prayersticks (C) was wrapped in the yucca base of the Ahayu:da figure in cat #E176544. It has been deaccessioned. This item was collected in 1881The other 2 prayersticks (A & B) remain in the Museum collections.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 Apr 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Mckinley County, New Mexico, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Zuni (A:shiwi)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 031983
label: USNM Number
content: E176575-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Prayer Stick