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Object Number 45-25-10/28925
Display Title Prayer stick
Descriptions
Indigenous Term Tapuibapo
Object Description Prayer stick (Tapuibapo). Mamzrauti. Painted with Katsina, cloud, and corn symbols in green, red, yellow, black, and white. Attached to it is a plant fibre symbolic of corn seeds or plants.
Inventory Description Prayer stick, flat wood, handle, katsina/corn poly motif, grain at top
Classification
  • Prayer stick
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Hopi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Arizona
Additional Geographic Terms Arizona, northeast
Dimensions Overall: 61.9 x 10.7 x 0.8 cm (24 3/8 x 4 3/16 x 5/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 45-25-10/28925/ 3333
Provenance
Collector Dr. Jesse Walter Fewkes (1892)
Collector Thomas V. Keam (1892)
Donor Mary T. Hemenway (May 5, 1945)

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