Prayer Stick
39-9-7
From: Arizona (uncertain)
Curatorial Section: American
Native Name | Baho |
Object Number | 39-9-7 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Hopi (uncertain) |
Provenience | Arizona (uncertain) |
Culture Area | Southwest Culture Area |
Section | American |
Materials | Wood | Hawk Feather | Corn Husk |
Description | Wooden parallelogram with elongated knob grip, stepped and with painted sky terrace; rainbow and rain [?] On face, green maize ear with black square-and-dot kernels. Long hawk feather glued to back of baho and shorter one tied to corn-husk back of sacred meal at grip. |
Height | 24 cm |
Width | 3.8 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of the Misses Harshberger in memory of John W. Harshberger, 1939 |
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