WHIP

Object/Artifact

-

St. Joseph Museums

Name/Title

WHIP

Entry/Object ID

143/3412

Description

DANCE WHIP/ZOO HEAD CARVED ON END/FUR ON END NOTE: ICAP SINTE TOKALA TAWA: WHIP OF THE TOKALA SOCIETY; USED IN DANCES TO DESIGNATE WHO SHALL DANCE, BY TOKALA CHIEF OR HEAD MAN, CALLED WICO HAPIYUKA. DANCERS ARE IN A CIRCLE, SQUATTING, HEAD MAN WALKS AROUND THE OUTSIDE OF CIRCLE AND STRIKES FIRST ONE THEN ANOTHER, WHO MUST GET UP AND DANCE. MADE BY WHITE FEATHER, MINNECONJOU, SIOUX

Collection

NATIVE AMERICAN

Made/Created

Place

Continent

North America

Ethnography

Cultural Region

Region

Great Plains

Continent

North America

Culture/Tribe

Oceti Sakowin
Native American

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Whip

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Device, Torture

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Regulative Devices

Nomenclature Class

Regulative & Protective T&E

Nomenclature Category

Category 05: Tools & Equipment for Science & Technology

Parts

Count

1

Material

Wood, Fur

Condition

Overall Condition

Good

Provenance

Notes

BEATRICE CREAMERY CO.; LINCOLN, NEB. VERN THORNBURGH, DEALER HLG LEDGER VOL. II, p 258U1, TOP OF PAGE, LETTER DATED 4/8/1915