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Offering or prayer stick
Object Number 14-5-10/85934
Display Title Offering or prayer stick
Descriptions
Inventory Description Stick, wrapped bundle of pine needles at one end, broken, mended
Classification
  • Accessory
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Navajo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States
Materials Wood, Pine needle, Twig
Dimensions Overall: 57.6 x 5 x 3.5 cm (22 11/16 x 1 15/16 x 1 3/8 in.)
Quantity 2
Provenance
Expedition Samuel J. Guernsey (1914 - 1914)
Expedition Dr. Alfred Vincent Kidder (1914 - 1914)

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