Sprinkler

Ceremonial Object

45-15-1251

From: United States of America | Montana | Badger Creek

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 45-15-1251
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Piegan | Blackfeet
Provenience United States of America | Montana | Badger Creek
Culture Area Great Plains Culture Area
Section American
Materials Buffalo Tail | Wood | Buckskin
Description

Buffalo tail with shaft thrust into the skin, buckskin wrist loop. Used in the sweat-bath ceremonial, from a tree burial. The end of the tail is now missing.

Length 36 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Mrs. Owen Stephens, 1945

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