Staff With Corncob End
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1991
name: label: Collector
content: Miss Frances T. Densmore
label: Donor Name
content: No Information
notes: label: Notes
content: NO NUMBER; PLAINS-STAFF WITH CORN COB END; 'PAWNEE - HAKO CEREMONY' [is written on object itself].
label: Notes
content: This object closely resembles (may actually be?) an object published in Pl. 3 (upper object), after p. 72, in Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 61, Teton Sioux Music by Frances Densmore. Object in the publication is identified as an ear of corn used in Hunka ceremony, Sioux.
label: Notes
content: Dr. JoAllyn Archambault, Standing Rock Sioux, NMNH Department of Anthropology, identified as corn hunka wand.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 16 May 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: United States (not certain), North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Pawnee (Chaticks Si Chaticks) (?)
label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin), Teton (Lakota) (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 999999
label: USNM Number
content: ET11036-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Wand