{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"5136"},"copyright":{"label":"Copyright","value":"The American Folk Art Museum believes this work to be in the public domain."},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Gift of Kendra and Allan Daniel"},"endDate":{"label":"End Date","value":"1900"},"sortNumber":{"label":"Sort Number","value":"2015     1  126"},"invno":{"label":"Accession number","value":"2015.1.126"},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Paint and gold leaf on wood"},"geographyPlaceregion":{"label":"Place/Region","value":""},"media":{"label":"Media","value":[{"mediaURL":"https://collection.folkartmuseum.org/internal/media/dispatcher/5089/full","mediaDepartment":"Object Photographs","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"5089"},{"mediaURL":"https://collection.folkartmuseum.org/internal/media/dispatcher/5090/full","mediaDepartment":"Object Photographs","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"5090"}]},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Independent Order of Odd Fellows Staff with Ram Horns"},"geographyCity":{"value":""},"textEntriesWebsitedisplaytext":{"value":"This fascinating staff was used by the Odd Fellows, but not as part of their sanctioned rituals. By the late nineteenth century, many American fraternal groups performed entertaining or joking \u201crituals\u201d to haze their initiates. The most well-known hazing gag entailed the use of a goat, usually a wheeled device with a goat\u2019s head. Blindfolded initiates would \u201cride the goat\u201d around the lodge room and try to stay on the bucking apparatus as members rocked it wildly back and forth. Several regalia companies sold wheeled mechanical goats, trick chairs, and staffs such as this example with ram horns. There are numerous satirical poems and stories about such gag rituals, including \u201cWhen Father Rode the Goat,\u201d published in a 1902 book of fraternal gags by James Pettibone, whose company, operated with his brother William, was one of the foremost sellers of fraternal regalia. Stacy C. Hollander, \"Independent Order of Odd Fellows Staff with Ram Horns,\" exhibition label for Mystery and Benevolence: Masonic and Odd Fellows Folk Art from the Kendra and Allan Daniel Collection. Stacy C. Hollander, curator. New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2016. Object information is a work in progress and may be updated with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk Art Museum welcomes additional information.　To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.org"},"collections":{"label":"Collections","value":["Three Dimensional Works","Fraternal Art and Objects"]},"geography":{"label":"Geography","value":""},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"155529"},"geographyState":{"value":""},"geographyCountry":{"value":"United States"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"people":{"label":"Artist / Maker","value":{"displayOrder":"1","personRole":"Artist","personID":"103","content":"Artist unidentified"}},"classifications":{"label":"Classification(s)","value":"Tools and Equipment"},"textEntries":{"label":"Text Entries","value":"This fascinating staff was used by the Odd Fellows, but not as part of their sanctioned rituals. By the late nineteenth century, many American fraternal groups performed entertaining or joking \u201crituals\u201d to haze their initiates. The most well-known hazing gag entailed the use of a goat, usually a wheeled device with a goat\u2019s head. Blindfolded initiates would \u201cride the goat\u201d around the lodge room and try to stay on the bucking apparatus as members rocked it wildly back and forth. Several regalia companies sold wheeled mechanical goats, trick chairs, and staffs such as this example with ram horns. There are numerous satirical poems and stories about such gag rituals, including \u201cWhen Father Rode the Goat,\u201d published in a 1902 book of fraternal gags by James Pettibone, whose company, operated with his brother William, was one of the foremost sellers of fraternal regalia. Stacy C. Hollander, \"Independent Order of Odd Fellows Staff with Ram Horns,\" exhibition label for Mystery and Benevolence: Masonic and Odd Fellows Folk Art from the Kendra and Allan Daniel Collection. Stacy C. Hollander, curator. New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2016. Object information is a work in progress and may be updated with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk Art Museum welcomes additional information.　To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.org"},"beginDate":{"label":"Begin Date","value":"1870"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"1870\u20131900"},"exhibitions":{"label":"Exhibitions","value":{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Thursday, January 21, 2016 - Sunday, May 8, 2016","exhibitionEndISODate":"2016-05-08","exhibitionID":"168","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2016-01-21","exhibitionBeginDate":"2016","exhibitionTitle":"Mystery and Benevolence","exhibitionEndDate":"2016"}},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"35 × 11 × 7 1/2\""}}]}