Staff

NA10828

From: Alaska | Angoon

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number NA10828
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Tlingit
Provenience Alaska | Angoon
Culture Area Northwest Coast Culture Area
Locus Deisheetaan Clan?
Section American
Materials Wood
Description

Ceremonial staff with shallowly incised designs called "The School of Salmon." The carving represents a school of hump-back salmon heading into a twist in the stream (LS). Point of attachment at one end for a staff top which is missing.

Width 3.7 cm
Credit Line Wanamaker Expedition to the Northwest Coast; Louis Shotridge, 1926
Other Number Shotridge 98 - Field No SF

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