Dance Fish Staff Item Number: E221185-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
From card: "A staff of wood with brass cap, carved to represent [starting at brass cap] bear, raven, frog, scaled serpent."Emmons in the accession file identifies this as a fish dance staff. Though this was catalogued as from Killisnoo, Alaska, in a letter dated August 20, 1903 in the accession file Emmons notes among objects shipped from Juneau this object and identifies it further as "Dance wand or chiefs beating stick used to keep time to the dance song[;] is from the Stickheen [Stikine] qwan[;] on it is represented the bear, the raven, the frog and an eel like salt water fish."
Item History
- Made in Killisnoo, Killisnoo Island, Alaska, USA
- Collected by Lt. George T. Emmons in Killisnoo, Killisnoo Island, Alaska, USA
- Received on September 12, 1903
What
- Name
- Dance Fish Staff
- Identification Number
- E221185-0
- Type of Item
- staff
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit, Hutsnuwu ? and Stikine ?
- Field Collector
- Lt. George T. Emmons
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- Killisnoo, Killisnoo Island, Alaska, USA
- Collected in
- Killisnoo, Killisnoo Island, Alaska, USA
When
- Acquisition Date
- on September 12, 1903
Other
- Accession Number
- 041512