wood, deer dew claws, hide thongs, animal or human hair, two small iron flat headed nails or tacks embedded as eyes (?) they look like light blueish pigment

dew claws are tied together and then around the neck of the Thunderbird with a thong, animal hair is wrapped around the knotted thongs

The top of the angle is carved as a bird (Thunderbird) and the handle has a zigzag contour representing lightning

Jones collected items used in traditional rituals from people he had converted and displayed them in the lectures he gave to raise money for Methodist missionary activities as evidence of his success in converting pagans. He could have collected such items from the 1820s when he began missionary activities through his adult life. He died in 1856(?)

Ruth Phillips began the record during a research visit in summer 2010. Additions made during GRASAC visit to the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History from Dec 3-7, 2012. The visit was funded by the Smithsonian's Recovering Voices project in order to work with GRASAC to develop a methodology for incorporating indigenous language research with material culture research. and

Ruth Phillips, then Alan Corbiere, Lisa Truong, Crystal Migwans, Ruth Phillips, Mary Ann Corbiere, Rand Valentine, Myna Toulouse and Theodore Toulouse