Dance-Wand Or Stick Item Number: E127169-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
From card: "Carved wood. Illus. in USNM AR 1888, Pl. 17, fig. 63, p. 272. See Andrews, 'Indian Primitive', p. 66." Plate caption in USNM AR for 1888 identifies object as "Dance Wand. Carried in the hand. Ornamented with human hair. Hoodsinoo Indians (Koluschan stock) [i.e. Hutsnuwu Tlingit], Alaska. Collected by Paymaster E. B. Webster, U.S. Navy." On p. 272 of the same report Niblack writes that this object is "... a Tlingit ceremonial dance wand in the shape of a dagger ..."
Item History
- Made in Alaska, USA
- Collected by Edwin B. Webster in Alaska, USA
- Received from U. S. Department of the Navy on September 28, 1886
What
- Name
- Dance-Wand Or Stick
- Identification Number
- E127169-0
- Type of Item
- wand
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit and Hutsnuwu
- Field Collector
- Edwin B. Webster
- Received from
- U. S. Department of the Navy
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- Alaska, USA
- Collected in
- Alaska, USA
When
- Acquisition Date
- on September 28, 1886
Other
- Accession Number
- 018028