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Music stick
Object Number 88-51-10/48065
Display Title Music stick
Descriptions
Object Description Music stick
Inventory Description Rasp, carved wood, notched, red and green pigmented
Classification
  • Percussion
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Hopi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Arizona
Additional Geographic Terms Hopi pueblos
Materials Wood, Pigment
Dimensions Overall: 40.2 x 2.6 x 2.3 cm (15 13/16 x 1 x 7/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 29889 (?) in faint black ink; 48065 &[68886]
Provenance
Collector Col. James Stevenson (1881)
Donor Smithsonian Institution (1888)

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Image Not Available for Children, Toys: /Qui (son of "/Gao Music" and ≠Nisa, sister of "Gao Medicine") (right) and ≠Toma (son of Gau and Be) sitting on a log, probably scraping bark off of sticks for the stick game
2001.29.1477 Children, Toys: /Qui (son of "/Gao Music" and ≠Nisa, sister of "Gao Medicine") (right) and ≠Toma (son of Gau and Be) sitting on a log, probably scraping bark off of sticks for the stick game
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Image Not Available for Children, Toys, Playthings: /Qui ("/Gao Music's" son) and /Gaishay ("Gao Medicine's" son) sitting on a log, peeling sticks for the stick game
2001.29.2902 Children, Toys, Playthings: /Qui ("/Gao Music's" son) and /Gaishay ("Gao Medicine's" son) sitting on a log, peeling sticks for the stick game
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for Dance: Men dancing clockwise around a group of women sitting in a circle, including "/Gao Music," ≠Toma (son of !Naishi) behind him, Bo carrying a stick and //Ao on the far side of the women
2001.29.2959 Dance: Men dancing clockwise around a group of women sitting in a circle, including "/Gao Music," ≠Toma (son of !Naishi) behind him, Bo carrying a stick and //Ao on the far side of the women
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for "/Gao Music" tuning a //guashi and showing how to twist stick
2001.29.22410 "/Gao Music" tuning a //guashi and showing how to twist stick
Nyae Nyae Conservancy