Offering - 8th Set (11 Plumes)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 27 Apr 1897
name: label: Collector
content: Mrs Matilda C. Stevenson
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "OF A FAMILY AT WINTER SOLSTICE. [This information is from the Anthropology catalogue ledger book and may not be correct? See information below. - F. Pickering and Gwyn Isaac, 5-12-2011] ZUNI OFFERINGS OF FEATHER PLUMES, TO THE SUN GOD-A PRAYER FOR RAIN. MADE IN WASHINGTON CITY, AT THE SUMMER SOLSTICE, BY WEWA [i.e. presumably We'wha], A PROMINENT MEMBER OF THE TRIBE. THE PLUMES, IN PROPER POSITIONS, WERE AFTERWARD CAREFULLY SECURED FOR THE U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM. 11 FOUND 1/4/79 - FORMERLY MISLABELED 156540. - LINDA EISENHART."
label: Notes
content: Reference: Mason, Otis T., 1886, "The Planting and Exhuming of a Prayer." Science, 8(179):24-25; Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1760802 .
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Feb 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 11
place: label: Place
content: New Mexico, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Zuni (A:shiwi)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 031983
label: USNM Number
content: E176540-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Prayer Stick