Dance-Wand Or Stick
date: label: Accession Date
content: 28 Sep 1886
name: label: Collector
content: Edwin B. Webster
label: Donor Name
content: U. S. Department of the Navy
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Carved wood. Illus. in USNM AR 1888, Pl. 17, fig. 63, p. 272. See Andrews, 'Indian Primitive', p. 66." Plate caption in USNM AR for 1888 identifies object as "Dance Wand. Carried in the hand. Ornamented with human hair. Hoodsinoo Indians (Koluschan stock) [i.e. Hutsnuwu Tlingit], Alaska. Collected by Paymaster E. B. Webster, U.S. Navy." On p. 272 of the same report Niblack writes that this object is "... a Tlingit ceremonial dance wand in the shape of a dagger ..."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tlingit, Hutsnuwu
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 018028
label: USNM Number
content: E127169-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Wand