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
On View
Not on viewClassificationsMusical instruments
Collections
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).
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).
19th century
early 20th century
about A.D. 100
19th century
19th century
late 19th century
1950–70
before 1500