Baton
NA8496
From: United States of America | Alaska | Sitka
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | NA8496 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Tlingit |
| Provenience | United States of America | Alaska | Sitka |
| Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
| Locus | Sitka Kaagwaantaan Clan | Eagle's Nest House |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Wood | Pigment | Hair |
| Iconography | Heron |
| Description | Dance baton that depicts a heron sitting in a tree (LSDA). The baton is made from a long, rounded piece of wood with a top carved to look like a heron's head. The length of wood is painted red with alternating red and black rings just below the top. The carved heron head has abalone shell inlay for the eyes and is painted using red and black pigments. Hair is inserted along the top of the head. A small line design is painted in black on the heron's long beak. |
| Length | 273.4 cm |
| Width | 9.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Wanamaker Expedition to the Northwest Coast; Louis Shotridge, 1918 |
| Other Number | BN 1 - Field No SF |
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