Dance staff
name: label: Culture/People
content: Oklahoma Shawnee
label: Previous owner
content: Chief Joe Billy (Pem Mep To/i'le'ni we ga wi'), Absentee Shawnee [Shawnee, Oklahoma-Pottawatomie County], 1835-1917
label: Collector
content: Chief William M. Skye (Bill Skye), Peoria, 1868-1923
label: Collector
content: Leo Walker, Sac and Fox (Sauk & Fox)
label: Collector
content: Mark Raymond Harrington (M. R. Harrington/MRH), Non-Indian, 1882-1971
notes: label: Collection History
content: Collected from Chief Joe Billy (Pem Mep To, 1835-1917, traditional leader of the Big Jim Band of Absentee Shawnee) in 1910 by anthropologist Mark Raymond Harrington (1882-1971, MAI staff member), assisted by Chief William M. Skye (Peoria, 1868-1923) and expedition interpreter Leo Walker (Sac and Fox), during fieldwork sponsored by George Heye.
label: Contact Us
content: Have a concern, a correction, or something to add? Contact us: https://nmai.si.edu/collections-statement
place: label: Place
content: Oklahoma; USA
setName: label: See related items
content: Oklahoma Shawnee
label: See related items
content: Personal items
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of the American Indian
identifier: label: Catalog Number
content: 2/6542
label: Barcode
content: 026542.000
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Personal items
label: Indigenous Term
content: a pa t'owe
physicalDescription: label: Object Name
content: Dance staff
label: Media/Materials
content: Wood
label: Techniques
content: Carved