Ritual Staff (Tunggal Panaluan)
Object type: Staff
Department: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
Culture: Toba Batak people
Date: 19th–early 20th century
Medium: Wood, cotton, horse hair
Dimensions: H. 72 1/2 × W. (including tuft) 7 × D. (including tuft) 5 in. (184.2 × 17.8 × 12.7 cm)
H. (including mount) 77 1/4 × W. (staff only) 3 × D. (staff only) 2 3/4 in. (196.2 × 7.6 × 7 cm)
Classification: Wood-Sculpture
Geography:     Indonesia Sumatra 
Credit line: Gift of Fred and Rita Richman, 1988
Accession year: 1988