NAGPRA1996-001 - museum specimen
Four Dilzini Gaan and the Clown
United States - San Carlos Apache Reservation, Arizona (cultural affiliation) - North America - Southwest
Sacred / spirit
Source term: bull-roarer
Four Dilzini Gaan masks and one Clown mask make a San Carlos masked team: four spirit dancers, and the clown who went ahead of them whirling the bullroarer to announce their coming. Nine wands and the bullroarer stayed with the masks as one set of painted wood and cloth.
- Object
- Bullroarer kept in one set with four Dilzini Gaan masks, one Clown mask and nine wands, all of painted wood and cloth (Arizona State Museum accession 85-40, acquired 1985).
- Function
- Kept with the masks and wands of a Gaan team; at San Carlos the clown whirled the bullroarer to announce the masked Gaan dancers, then during the dance.
- Source
- National Park Service, Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items in the Possession of the Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, Federal Register 61, 10 May 1996, p. 21487 (FR Doc. 96-11645): "a set of San Carlos Apache Gaan material consisting of four Dilzini Gaan masks, one Clown mask, nine accompanying wands and one associated…
- Source location
Page references
FR 61:21487; ASM accession 85-40
- Source confidence
- medium
- Location note
- San Carlos agency town as anchor for the San Carlos Apache cultural affiliation; the notice names no collection place.
Regions: The Americas · American Southwest · North America