Scraper and blade (truhkunpi)

before 1879

Object PlaceArizona, United States

Medium/TechniqueWood, deer bone (?)

DimensionsLength 44.7 cm, width 3 cm, thickness 2 cm (Length 17 5/8 in., width 1 3/16 in., thickness 13/16 in.)

Credit LineLeslie Lindsey Mason Collection

Accession number17.2244a-b

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ClassificationsMusical instruments

Collections

Musical Instruments

Provenance1879, acquired from the Wolpi by Colonel James Stevenson (b. 1840 - d. 1888) for the United States National Museum (Smithsonian Institution), Washington, DC (cat. no. 41,983; accession no. 9,899) [see note]; March, 1902, exchanged by the U.S. National Museum with Francis W. Galpin (b. 1858 - d. 1945), Hatfield Regis, England; 1916, sold by Francis W. Galpin to William Lindsey (b. 1858 - d. 1922), Boston; 1916, gift of William Lindsey to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 5, 1916)

NOTE: Smithsonian Institution--Bureau of Ethnology, Illustrated Catalogue Of The Collections Obtained From the Indians Of New Mexico And Arizona in 1879 by James Stevenson (Washington, DC, 1883), p. 394, no. 2123 (41983).