Drumming-Stick
date: label: Accession Date
content: 12 May 1919
name: label: Collector
content: Miss Frances T. Densmore
label: Donor Name
content: Miss Frances T. Densmore
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Used in ceremony to secure a good crop of corn. Label on specimen was changed from Chippewa to Mandan Hidatsa to agree with this card and accession papers. LHC 8/8/77".
label: Notes
content: This object resembles one illustrated in Plate 13, after p. 40 in Densmore, Frances. 1923. "Mandan and Hidatsa music." Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin. 80:1–192. It is identified in the book as a drumming stick used with Goose Women Society drum; the drumstick was made for Densmore by Ben Benson (a Mandan informant of Densmore). Per Densmore, the Goose Women Society "would look after the corn."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 16 Apr 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, North Dakota, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Mandan
label: Culture
content: Hidatsa (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 063564
label: USNM Number
content: E306987-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Drumstick