Wooden Painted Ornament For Dance
date: label: Accession Date
content: 6 Jan 1881
name: label: Collector
content: Col. James Stevenson
label: Collector
content: Frank H. Cushing
label: Collector
content: Frank G. Galbraith
label: Donor Name
content: Col. James Stevenson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS.: P.187, P1.133C, CELEBRATIONS CATALOGUE, SMITHSONIAN PRESS, 1982." 41926 LOANED TO RENWICK GALLERY 2/18/82. RETURNED 6/1983. TWO PRAYER SLABS, CA. 1870-80. HOPI INDIANS; ARIZONA. WOOD, FEATHERS, PAINT, STRING. LARGEST: 22 X 7 X 1/2 (55.8 X 17.8 X 1.3) NMNH 41926. THE PAHO, OR PRAYER STICK, IS THE HOPI DEVICE FOR CATCHING THE ATTENTION OF SPIRITS. TO BE EFFECTIVE IT MUST BE MADE AND USED WITH A SINCERE HEART. WOMAN MAKE PRAYER STICKS DURING THE EIGHT DAYS OF SECRET CEREMONIES BEFORE PUBLIC DANCES HELD IN CONNECTION WITH THE MARAU SOCIETY. WOMEN WHO ARE TO BE INITIATED INTO THE SOCIETY HOLD A STICK IN EACH HAND AND GENTLY WAVE THEM. THE FEATHERS ATTACHED TO THE STICK ARE "BREATH FEATHERS" THAT CARRY THE ESSENCE OF PRAYER TO THE SPIRITS. THE DESIGN ON THE BOTTOM REPRESENTS A CORNCOB, ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT HOPI FOOD CROPS. THE BEING REPRESENTED IS PROBABLY THE FERTILITY DEITY. 41931, 41926 PAIR, 49132, 41940 - ILLUS. IN BAE 2ND AR, FIGS. 555-8, P. 393. 41926: ILLUS. P. 187, PL. 133C, CELEBRATIONS CATALOGUE, SMITHSONIAN PRESS, 1982."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: New Mexico, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Hopi
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 009899
label: USNM Number
content: E41926-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Wand