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Object Number
994-18-10/74749
Display Title
Drinking straw with scratching stick
Descriptions
Object Description
Drinking straw with scratching stick. Hollow reed straw has painted zigzag pattern in red, green and purple, and one carved zigzag. The straw is attached to a rawhide strip with knotted sinew. Paint is wearing off. 12.7 cm long x 1.0 cm diameter.
Scratching stick of roughly shaped wood, tapered at one end. Attached to the same rawhide strip with knotted sinew. 13.9 cm long x .75 cm diameter. Rawhide strip is in a loop and measures 61.7 cm long
Inventory Description
Ornament, leather thong, bamboo tube, incised, carved wood stick, sinew lashed
Classification
- Ornament
Department
Ethnographic
Date
1994
Artist
Paul Ethalbah
(5/12/94)
Culture
- White Mountain Apache
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
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United States
/
Arizona
/
Gila County
/
Cedar Creek
Dimensions
Overall: 48.5 x 1.3 x 1.3 cm (19 1/8 x 1/2 x 1/2 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
994-18-10/74749
Provenance
Intermediary
Ernestine Begay
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