Dance Ornaments For The Hand
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 Feb 1883
name: label: Collector
content: Col. James Stevenson
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: MAKES A PAIR WITH CAT. NO. 69190. ILLUS. PL. 1, P. 48 IN "HOPI DANCE WANDS, PART 1: HISTORY, USE AND CONSTRUCTION" BY DAVID SCHRAMM, AMERICAN INDIAN ART MAGAZINE, VOL. 28, NO. 2, 2003, AND ID THERE AS PAIR OF SINGLE-HANDLED DANCE WANDS USED BY HOPI WOMEN IN MARAW SOCIETY PERFORMANCES; MAIN IMAGE IS KUTKA, THE WHITE KATSINA; ABOVE THE FIGURES ARE DEPICTIONS OF TERRACED CLOUDS AND SQUASH BLOSSOMS; BELOW ARE STYLIZED REPRESENTATIONS OF THE LONG CLOUD, WUPA OMAU, AND RAINBOWS; THESE ARE UNUSUAL IN THAT THEY LACK REPRESENTATIONS OF CORN.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 Oct 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Walpi (Waalpi), Hopi Reservation / Navajo County / First Mesa, 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: 83A00001
label: USNM Number
content: E69189-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Wand