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Lacrosse Stick

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Object Number:58-6-2A
Current Location: Native American Voices
Currently On Display
Culture:Cherokee
Provenience: United States of America
North Carolina
Qualla Boundary
Big Cove
Culture Area: Southeast Culture Area
Section:American
Materials:Hickory Wood
Wire
Credit Line:Purchased from Paul Kutsche, 1958

Description

Each made of one piece of hickory wood, shaved to flat section in center, bent double, and nailed to form both the handle and the pear-shaped loop for the "pocket." Two horizontal and six vertical wires in "meshing" of pocket made from two continuous pieces of wire in -a, from one piece in -b. Seven holes punched in pocket frame for the wiring.

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Native American Voices: The People - Here and Now (01 Mar 2014) View Objects in Exhibition

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