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Frank L. Babbott Fund
The exact use of this staff is unknown. It was possibly used as a shaman's curing staff. It depicts a raven with a long beak and flattened wings along the side. (Photograph does not show the body or the long staff itself). Most of the greenish paint has come off.
Central Plains. This club would be carried in dances as a something that gave status and position to a man for instance the Buffalo Dance Society. Should not have any restrictions as these were individual ownership.
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.
item is from the Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
item is from the Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
Model of medicine man's staff in the form of a bird head. It is painted in red and black and has three white bird feathers. [MJD 17/08/2009]
From card: "Carved and painted."
72698; STAFF, MISNUMBERED, LOOKS LIKE A NEW STAFF FROM MAKAH.