Deer Horn Dance Rattle
date: label: Accession Date
content: 22 May 1929
name: label: Collector
content: E. G. Johnson
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: PAINTED WITH SPLOTCHES OF RED AND GREEN. ... FROM JOHNSON'S LIST IN ACCESSION FILE: "DEER HORN RATTLE, MADE FROM FREAK DEER HORN, USED BY WEITCHPEC GEORGE IN THE SOLO DANCE DURING THE BRUSH DANCE. COLLECTED FROM WEITCHPEC GEORGE, KLAMATH TRIBE, AT WEITCHPEC, CALIFORNIA. TOLD BY WEITCHPEC GEORGE: 'MY GRANDFATHER HAD DEER RATTLE HE USED INSTEAD OF BEADS, THERE WERE DEER TOE RATTLES ON THAT ONE, IT MADE BETTER DANCE RATTLE, ONLY ONE LIKE THAT I EVER SAW AND THAT WAS BURIED WITH MY GRANDFATHER. MY FATHER MAKE THIS ONE ABOUT 50 YEARS AGO, I PUT ON BEAD WHEN DEER TOE WEAR OUT.'"
label: Notes
content: Based on the Weitchpec locality and association with Weitchpec George, this object is from the Klamath River Indians, not the Oregon Klamath, and is probably Yurok. Weitchpec George is identified as a Yurok consultant of Edward S. Curtis; see Edward S. Curtis; Frederick Webb Hodge (editor). The North American Indian, Being A Series of Volumes Picturing and Describing the Indians of the United States, the Dominion of Canada, and Alaska, Volume 13. The Hupa. The Yurok. The Karok. The Wiyot. Tolowa and Tututni. The Shasta. The Achomawi. The Klamath, published by University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1924, hardcover and portfolio of large, supplementary plates. Photo of Weitchpec George is in this publication facing p. 70.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 3 May 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Weitchpec, Humboldt County, California, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Klamath River Indians
label: Culture
content: Yurok (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 105865
label: USNM Number
content: E342285-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Rattle