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Wild cat's skin
Object Number 92-1-10/47808
Display Title Wild cat's skin
Descriptions
Object Description Wild cat's skin. Part of the ceremony of the Omaha Pipe Dance.
Inventory Description Skin, entire cat fur hide, mountain lion? white with black markings
Classification
  • Accessory
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Omaha
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Idaho
Materials Fur
Dimensions Overall: 108 x 55 x 2 cm (42 1/2 x 21 5/8 x 13/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 47808; 33/15
Provenance
Collector Francis La Flesche (1883)
Donor Alice C. Fletcher (1892)

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Wild cat's fur, dark color
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Cords
Kimberley
Western Australia
"Two deer attacked by two wild cats"
54-27-10/74675 "Two deer attacked by two wild cats"
Painting
Jemez Pueblo
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Bag
Cameroon
"Cats cradle": Girl holding a "cat's cradle" (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30708 "Cats cradle": Girl holding a "cat's cradle" (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Cats cradle": Girl holding a "cat's cradle" (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30708.1 "Cats cradle": Girl holding a "cat's cradle" (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
//Kushay ("/Qui Navel's" wife) making a "cat's cradle" as she sits in front of the expedition truck's tire with unidentified children around her; Di!ai is sitting to the right
2001.29.22905 //Kushay ("/Qui Navel's" wife) making a "cat's cradle" as she sits in front of the expedition truck's tire with unidentified children around her; Di!ai is sitting to the right
Nama Pan
[No folder title]: //Kushay ("/Qui Navel's" wife) making a "cat's cradle" as she sits in front of the expedition truck's tire with unidentified children around her; Di!ai is sitting to the right (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31151 [No folder title]: //Kushay ("/Qui Navel's" wife) making a "cat's cradle" as she sits in front of the expedition truck's tire with unidentified children around her; Di!ai is sitting to the right (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
"Cats cradle": N≠isa wearing many hair ornaments, making a "cat's cradle" (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30707.1 "Cats cradle": N≠isa wearing many hair ornaments, making a "cat's cradle" (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Cats cradle": N≠isa wearing many hair ornaments, making a "cat's cradle" (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30707.2 "Cats cradle": N≠isa wearing many hair ornaments, making a "cat's cradle" (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Cats cradle": Two girls sitting in front of a skerm, one is making a "cat's cradle" (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.564.1 "Cats cradle": Two girls sitting in front of a skerm, one is making a "cat's cradle" (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Cats cradle": N≠isa wearing many hair ornaments, making a "cat's cradle" (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30707 "Cats cradle": N≠isa wearing many hair ornaments, making a "cat's cradle" (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Cats cradle": Two girls sitting in front of a skerm, one is making a "cat's cradle" (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.564 "Cats cradle": Two girls sitting in front of a skerm, one is making a "cat's cradle" (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha