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Peyote Feather

Object Number:70-9-481
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Delaware Culture (uncertain)
Lenape (uncertain)
Provenience: United States of America
Oklahoma (uncertain)
Culture Area: Northeast Culture Area
Section:American
Materials:Golden Eagle Feather
Hide
Bead
Iconography:Peyote Ceremony
Credit Line:Bequest of Samuel Pennypacker, 1970

Description

Golden eagle feather, with two small red commercially dyed feathers, one on either side. Quill is wrapped in a hide tube, which is covered with blue, white, red, orange, yellow, and light blue beadwork.

Bibliography:

[Other] Wm. D. Morley, Inc. Inventory and Appraisement - Personal Property - The Estate of Samuel W. Pennypacker, 2nd, Dec'd. - Haldeman Road Schwenksville, RD 1 Penna. October 15, 1968.. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: 26View Objects related to this Actual Citation

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