Sacred arrow for offerings
Object Details
- Culture/People
- Wixarika (Huichol)
- Collector
- Donald B. Cordry (Donald Bush Cordry), Non-Indian, 1907-1978
- Collection History
- Collected in 1937 by Donald B. Cordry (1907-1978, a collector and amateur ethnologist) during fieldwork sponsored by MAI.
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- Date created
- circa 1935
- Catalog Number
- 19/7866
- Barcode
- 197866.000
- Object Type
- Ceremonial/Ritual items: Shamanic objects
- Object Name
- Sacred arrow for offerings
- Media/Materials
- Wood, hawk feather/feathers, parrot feather/feathers, wool yarn, sinew
- Techniques
- Carved, wrapped, woven
- Dimensions
- 55 x 22.5 x 6 cm
- Place
- Las Juntas (Las Huntas); Nayarit State; Mexico
- See related items
- Wixarika (Huichol)
- Ceremonial/Ritual items: Shamanic objects
- On View
- NMAI, New York, NY: Infinity of Nations, Mesoamerica & Circum Caribbean
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_211319
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws6b1ecb9de-7ca3-4688-a846-11688df7f756
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