Feather Ornament For Dancing (2 Boxes)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 Feb 1883
name: label: Collector
content: Col. James Stevenson
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: LEDGER AND CATALOG CARD SAY SENT TO TROCADERO, FRANCE. 1885.
label: Notes
content: As of 2010, object consists of 2 feathers with old tag identifying them as feather ornament for dancing, and 8 partial and complete corncob darts. The darts also appear in the Anthropology catalogue ledger book drawing for E69024. Some of the darts are illustrated in Fig. 648, p. 495 in "Games of the North American Indians" by Stewart Culin, BAE 24th Annual Report. They are there identified as corncob darts used in a form of hoop and pole game, where the darts are thrown through a circular target game wheel or ring made of cornhusks.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 11
place: label: Place
content: Walpi (Waalpi), Hopi Reservation / Navajo County / First Mesa, Arizona, 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: 83A00001
label: USNM Number
content: E69024-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Feather Ornament / Hoop And Pole Game