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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Caption: Inset on Marker
Additional Description: Dunning Sticks Used by the Nisenan, these were tossed into a debtor’s house by the creditor as a reminder that the debt should soon be paid. Generally about four inches long, they were of wood, whittled and painted with red and black pigments, and tied with milkweed fiber string.
Submitted: July 16, 2011, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p164175
File Size: 2.887 Megabytes

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