Conjuring Bones
70-9-513
From: Canada | Quebec
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 70-9-513 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Naskapi | St. Augustine Band |
| Provenience | Canada | Quebec |
| Culture Area | Subarctic Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Caribou Bone | Fiber |
| Description | Ten long bones from caribou fetuses, wrapped in a scrap of blue cloth. Suspended over drum to produce buzzing while the drum is being struck. Note in Speck's handwriting on tag accompanying object: "Drum snare of bones taken from unborn caribou for magical influence in use of drum when conjuring (obtained from Jerome Mistenapi." See Speck 1935, Naskapi, pp. 175. |
| Length | 4 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Samuel Pennypacker, 1970 |
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