Quirt
date: label: Accession Date
content: 11 Jun 1992
name: label: Donor Name
content: Florence Evans
notes: label: Notes
content: CONSTRUCTED OF WHITE AND BROWN HORSE HAIR WITH RED AND ORANGE DYED HORSE HAIR IN SOUMAK-STYLE WEAVE (REGENSTEINER 1970: 155-156) WITH RED BROWN, AND ORANGE GEOMETRIC PATTERNS WOVEN AROUND CORE. HORSE HAIR TASSLE WITH TWO NETTED BULBS. PLAITED HANDLE THREADED THROUGH BODY OF QUIRT. HANDLE HAS SOUMAK-STYLE WOVEN TOGGLE AT END WITH TASSLE. TOP OF QUIRT BODY HAS SHORT TASSLE. SKIN WHIP END OF TASSLE IS MISSING. ACCORDING TO DONOR'S WILL THIS OBJECT BELONGED TO CHIEF SITTING BULL AND IS DESCRIBED AS A GHOST DANCE WHIP. SEE ACCESSION RECORDS FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jan 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin), Lakota
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 380523
label: USNM Number
content: E425954-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Whip
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 63 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 6 cm