Ceremonial Cane
date: label: Accession Date
content: 10 Jun 1947
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. J. N. Hewitt
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: Reference: "The Roll Call of the Iroquois Chiefs: A Study of a Mnemonic Cane from the Six Nations Reserve"; Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 111(15):1-73; Washington, D.C.. From card: "Single piece of wood tapered toward base, hook at top. Incised carving on upper portion (below hook) includes false face, house and geometric figures. Animal head carved in round at end of handle. This cane is described by Dr. Wm. N. Fenton, BAE, in a paper prepared for publication in 1947. Illus. Hndbk. of N. Amer. Indians, Vol. [15], Northeast, Fig. 16, 463. "...Cane of white hickory used as a pointer in the moccasin game held at wakes of chiefs..." 7-9-1985 Lent to NMAH; Life in America exhibit." Note that the illustration in the Handbook consists of drawings of the incising, its location on the cane, and a detail of the bear head on the end of the handle. A copy of Fenton's paper is filed in the Anthropology Collections Lab Accession file.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 3 Mar 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Six Nations, Grand River, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Iroquois (Haudenosaunee)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 176347
label: USNM Number
content: E384288-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cane