Loom, Sacred (5 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: "Two slats with row of 56 perforations in middle; 2 stakes 49 in long; 1 wooden pin for use on weft. Used by Mrs. Bro'ga hi ge for weaving sacred mat pouch for sacred pack. The ceremony of weaving was one of the 7 degrees of the Non-hon-zhin-ga order."
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 rush case for the sacred bird."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Mar 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 5
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: E275976-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Loom