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Object Number
45-25-10/28687
Display Title
Medicine pouch
Descriptions
Object Description
Prayer meal wallet of a Snake Priest. Medicine pouch made of hide painted with red pigment fringe on pouch cut in triangular shape..
Inventory Description
Pouch, leather, folded and fringed opening, fringed bottom edge, reddish-brown
Classification
- Pouch
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Hopi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
/
Arizona
Additional Geographic Terms
Arizona, northeast
Materials
Leather, Hide, Cotton thread, Pigment
Dimensions
Overall: 26 x 9.5 x 1.1 cm (10 1/4 x 3 3/4 x 7/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
45-25-10/28687
Provenance
Collector
Dr. Jesse Walter Fewkes
(1892)
Collector
Thomas V. Keam
(1892)
Donor
Mary T. Hemenway
(May 5, 1945)
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