Dance Staff Item Number: 50.67.94 from the Brooklyn Museum
Description
Long staff with knobs along the handle. The top is a larger knob with a face engraved into one side. Similar staffs are used for Sioux Warrior Societies and there is a possibility this staff was used as such and is not Caddo but Sioux.
Credit Line
Henry L. Batterman Fund and the Frank Sherman Benson Fund
Item History
- Made between 1800 and 1825
What
- Name
- Dance Staff
- Identification Number
- 50.67.94
- Type of Item
- dance staff
- Material
- wood and pigment
- Overall
- length 36.75 in, width 2.75 in, height 2.75 in
Where
- Holding Institution
- Brooklyn Museum
When
- Creation Date
- between 1800 and 1825
Other
- Classification
- Accoutrement