Wand
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1991
name: label: Collector
content: Miss Frances T. Densmore
label: Donor Name
content: No Information
notes: label: Notes
content: T number assigned Dec. 8, 1976. From card: "Sioux? Straight wooden stick wrapped with cloth painted in bands of blue. Fringed with 5 bundles of red-dyed horsehair attached with sinew. Twelve feathers attached to yellow-dyed skin strip and long strand of blue glass beads terminating in a white feather hang from one end of stick. Loaned: Jefferson Natil. Expansion Memorial 2/2/1960. Loan returned Dec. 3, 1976."
label: Notes
content: This object closely resembles (may actually be?) an object published in Pl. 3 (lower object), after p. 72, in Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 61, Teton Sioux Music by Frances Densmore. Object in the publication is identified as a wand used in Hunka ceremony, Sioux.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 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: 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: ET1678A-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Wand
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 81 cm