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Object Number 45-25-10/28907
Display Title Prayer stick
Descriptions
Indigenous Term Baho--prayer stick
Inventory Description Prayer sticks, carved wood, pointed black ends, 2 bound w/vegetable fiber strng
Classification
  • Prayer stick
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Hopi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Arizona
Additional Geographic Terms Arizona, northeast
Dimensions Overall: 13.4 x 1.8 x 1.1 cm (5 1/4 x 11/16 x 7/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 45-25-10/28907/ 3292
Provenance
Collector Dr. Jesse Walter Fewkes (1892)
Collector Thomas V. Keam (1892)
Donor Mary T. Hemenway (May 5, 1945)

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