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Gilcrease Museum Plans Repatriate of Sacred Ceremonial Fire Stick to Lineal Descendant
November 26, 2025
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 (TNSFR) -- The Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma has announced its intention to repatriate a sacred ceremonial object connected to a known lineal descendant. The item, recorded as a fire stick used during a naming ceremony in Stroud, Oklahoma in 1963 at the Sac and Fox Nation, was donated to the museum in 2014 by anthropologist Carol Rachlin, who had worked closely with the Tribe during that period. The museum reports that the fire stick meets the criteria of a sacred object . . .

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