Loom, Sacred (9 Pieces)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 2 Dec 1912
name: label: Collector
content: Francis La Flesche
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "2 wooden slats with three perforations burnt in either end and one in middle; 4 rods for weaving; 1 weft adjuster of deer horn. 2 stakes for setting up frame. Used by wife of Bro-ga-hi-ge for weaving buffalo hair pouch for sacred bundle."
label: Notes
content: See p. 53 in Smithsonian Annual Report for 1913, where it notes that Francis La Flesche procured two sacred looms from Mrs. Brogahige, "one of the ceremonial weavers of the Osage", including one "... used in weaving the buffalo-hair case ...".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Mar 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 9
place: label: Place
content: Pawhuska, Osage County, Oklahoma, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Osage (Wazhazhe)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 054798
label: USNM Number
content: E275975-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Loom