Object Details
- Culture/People
- Niuam (Comanche)
- Previous owner
- Po-ta-ra (Po'-ta-na), Niuam (Comanche)
- Collector
- Mark Raymond Harrington (M. R. Harrington/MRH), Non-Indian, 1882-1971
- Collection History
- Collected from Po-ta-ra (Niuam) in 1909 by anthropologist Mark Raymond Harrington (1882-1971, MAI staff member) during fieldwork sponsored by George Heye.
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- Have a concern, a correction, or something to add? Contact us: https://nmai.si.edu/collections-statement
- Date created
- circa 1900
- Catalog Number
- 2/1659
- Barcode
- 021659.000
- Object Type
- Ceremonial/Ritual items
- Indigenous Term
- wu' tsa wai ya
- Object Name
- Rattle for Native American Church/Peyote ritual
- Media/Materials
- Gourd, wood, glass bead/beads, hide thong/babiche, feather/feathers, thread
- Techniques
- Cut, carved, gourd stitch/brick stitch/netted beadwork, twisted, fringed
- Dimensions
- 55 x 9 cm
- Place
- Oklahoma; USA
- See related items
- Niuam (Comanche)
- Ceremonial/Ritual items
- On View
- NMAI, New York, NY: Infinity of Nations, Plains & Plateau
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_23009
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws6b086629c-3fac-4cdd-b187-a86f08c18027
