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Object Number 45-25-10/28914
Display Title Prayer stick
Descriptions
Indigenous Term Baho--prayer stick
Object Description Prayer stick (baho) - very small. Made with wood, cottonwood maybe, with a turkey feather and plant fibre attached to it by the wool string.
Inventory Description Prayer stick, notched wooden wand, pig- mented, feather/ grass tied, cotton str
Classification
  • Prayer stick
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Hopi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Arizona / Navajo County / Hopi Reservation / First Mesa / Walpi
Additional Geographic Terms Arizona, northeast; First Mesa
Dimensions Overall: 30.3 x 5.3 x 1.6 cm (11 15/16 x 2 1/16 x 5/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 45-25-10/28914 & 3299
Provenance
Collector Thomas V. Keam (1892)
Donor Mary T. Hemenway (May 5, 1945)

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