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Object Number 45-25-10/28924A
Display Title Prayer stick
Descriptions
Indigenous Term Tapuibapo
Object Description Prayer stick (Tapuibapo). Mamzrauti. Decorated with image of Deer Katsina and two corn symbols painted in green, red, yellow, black, white and blue, with two handles at the base of the stick.
Inventory Description Prayer stick, wood, double handle, poly. antlered katsina w. corn, cotton strin
Classification
  • Prayer stick
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Hopi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Arizona
Additional Geographic Terms Arizona, northeast
Dimensions Overall: 49.5 x 14.1 x 0.6 cm (19 1/2 x 5 9/16 x 1/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 45-25-10/28924A & 3332 & #5
Provenance
Collector Dr. Jesse Walter Fewkes (1892)
Collector Thomas V. Keam (1892)
Donor Mary T. Hemenway (May 5, 1945)

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