Ceremonial Cane Item Number: 2600/74 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Consumption cane. Slightly tapering wooden staff with a bulbous head showing very abstract facial features. Meant to depict the wasting away of the body to disease.
Cane was buried for a year to darken the wood.
The apprentice to a medicine man would carve the cane under the tutelage of the senior. The senior medicine man would then imbue the cane with a specific spirit.