Hair ornament
Usage Conditions Apply
- Culture/People
- Eastern Band of Cherokee
- Previous owner
- John Wolf, Eastern Band of Cherokee
- Collector
- Mark Raymond Harrington (M. R. Harrington/MRH), Non-Indian, 1882-1971
- Object Name
- Hair ornament
- Media/Materials
- Rattlesnake rattle
- Techniques
- Dried
- Object Type
- Games, Toys, Gambling: Ball game items
- Native Term
- uds o wa ni ti'n wa sits su nu hi
- Place
- Swain County and Jackson County; North Carolina; USA
- Collection History
- Collected from John Wolf (Eastern Band of Cherokee) in 1908 by anthropologist Mark Raymond Harrington (1882-1971, MAI staff member) during fieldwork sponsored by George Heye.
- Catalog Number
- 1/8969
- Barcode
- 018969.000
- See related items
- Eastern Band of Cherokee
- Games, Toys, Gambling: Ball game items
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Contact Us
- Have a concern, a correction, or something to add? Contact us: https://nmai.si.edu/collections-statement