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Miniature feather prayer fan with hammer feathers and mescal beans / Unknown

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Essay/Description

A tiny fan of four red hammer feathers decorated with dyed chicken hackles and sewn into white buckskin extensions. These four extensions are sewn together to form the handle. They continue on to form four fringes. Attached to each fringe is a mescal bean.

Curatorial Remarks

Possibly a hair tie, not prayer fan.

Tags: feathers, leather, mescal bean, red, Native American Church
Places: Oklahoma
Purpose: peyote meeting

From interviews with Dr. Garrick Bailey, 2018-2020 University of Tulsa, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology

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Title(s): 
Miniature feather prayer fan with hammer feathers and mescal beans
Creator(s): 
Unknown
Culture: 
Native American; Kiowa
Date: 
20th century
Place: 
Mountain View, Oklahoma
Materials/Techniques: 
feathers (chicken), mescal beans, hide
Classification: 
Ethnographic Objects
Object Type: 
Fan
Credit Line: 
Gift of Pearl Big Bow
Accession No: 
84.2902
Previous Number(s): 
TL1997.73.9
Department: 
Anthropology
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