Object Number | NA1264 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Chilkat | Tlingit |
Provenience | Alaska | Klukwan |
Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
Section | American |
Materials | Wood |
Description | A wooden body stamp with a handle at one end. The design is carved in relief and represents a small tina or copper shield. It includes an upper section with a central eye flanked above and below by stylized rectangles, suggesting ears. The lower section is split vertically with a curved design of three lines on each side, suggesting ribs. The stamp would be coated in animal fat, then covered with colored pigments before being applied to a dancer's skin. |
Length | 17.1 cm |
Width | 4.3 cm |
Credit Line | Alaska Ethnological Expedition, George Byron Gordon, 1905 |
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