Staff (uncertain)

NA8497

From: United States of America | Alaska | Sitka (uncertain)

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number NA8497
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Tlingit
Provenience United States of America | Alaska | Sitka (uncertain)
Culture Area Northwest Coast Culture Area
Locus Sitka Kaagwaantaan Clan? | Eagle's Nest House?
Section American
Materials Wood | Opercula
Description

Ceremonial dance staff and rattle. A long piece of wood is rounded and carved with a longitudinal groove along one side to form the rattle. Each end is inlaid with multiple columns of five opercula shells.

Length 144 cm
Width 4.6 cm
Credit Line Wanamaker Expedition to the Northwest Coast; Louis Shotridge, 1918
Other Number SJ1? - Field No SF | 331? - Other Number

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