Fetish Of Bravery
date: label: Accession Date
content: 14 Feb 1895
name: label: Collector
content: William J. McGee
label: Collector
content: William Dinwiddie
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "BOX OF PLAITED AGAVE LEAF, WRAPPED IN A PIECE OF COTTON CLOTH, TIED IN POSITION BY A MAGUEY-FIBER TWISTED CORD, WHICH ALSO SERVES AS A HANDLE. THE CONTENTS ARE AN EAGLE FEATHER ALMOST COVERED WITH A WHITE COTTON-STRING WRAPPING, AN OWL FEATHER SIMILARLY WRAPPED FOR A SHORTER DISTANCE, A HANK OF WHITE COTTON CORD, THREE LUMPS OF SEHUARA CACTUS COMPRESSED FRUIT, AND TWO PIECES OF BAKED WHEAT CAKE." FROM CARD: "174532A. COLLECTIONS OF THE BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY. FETICH OF BRAVERY.-BOX OF PLAITED AGAVE LEAF, WRAPPED IN A PIECE OF COTTON CLOTH, TIED IN POSITION BY A MAGUEY-FIBER TWISTED CORD, WHICH ALSO SERVES AS A HANDLE. THE CONTENTS ARE AN EAGLE FEATHER ALMOST COVERED WITH A WHITE COTTON-STRING WRAPPING, AN OWL FEATHER SIMILARLY WRAPPED FOR SHORTER DISTANCE, A HANK OF WHITE COTTON CORD, THREE LUMPS OF SEHUARA CACTUS COMPRESSED FRUIT, AND TWO PIECES OF BAKED WHEAT CAKE. LENGTH 14 INCHES; DIAMETER 3 INCHES. PAPAGO INDIANS, PIMA CO., ARIZONA, 1894. 174,532. COLLECTED BY W J MCGEE AND WM. DINWIDDIE."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, San Xavier Reservation / Pima County, Arizona, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Papago (Tohono O'odham)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 029025
label: USNM Number
content: E174532-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fetish
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 36 cm
label: Diameter - Object
content: 8 cm