Object Details
- Culture/People
- Cherokee
- Artist/Maker
- Don Morse Smith (Lelooska), Cherokee descent, 1933-1996
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- IACB source
- Don Morse Smith (Lelooska), Cherokee descent, 1933-1996
- Collection History
- Created during a carving demonstration by the artist sponsored by the Indian Arts and Crafts Board and held on the Makah Reservation (Neah Bay, Washington); purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from the artist in 1965; part of the IACB Headquarters collection (Department of the Interior, Washington, DC) until 2000 when it was transferred to NMAI.
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- Date created
- 1965
- Catalog Number
- 25/8768
- Barcode
- 258768.000
- Object Type
- Music and Sound
- Title
- Crane and Xweti
- Object Name
- Crane rattle
- Media/Materials
- Alder, deerhide/deerskin, paint, animal hair, deer antler
- Techniques
- Carved, painted, wrapped, inlaid
- Dimensions
- 32.4 x 15.6 x 10.5 cm
- Place
- Neah Bay, Makah Reservation; Clallam County; Washington; USA (inferred)
- See related items
- Cherokee
- Music and Sound
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_274716
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws626b53e93-1aa5-46fa-a496-f8f2ba14e291
