Ghost Dance Staff
date: label: Accession Date
content: 8 Oct 1892
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. James Mooney
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Beaded. Had been traded and returned to the museum in the Evans collection as #361224. When discoverd the Evan's number was cancelled & the staff given its original B.A.E. number. R.E. 2/1968. A wooden staff, beaded in wide bands of green, white, red, with small pair of red painted buffalo horns fastened on one end in crescent shape. On other end tied a long tan colored cow's tail. Illus, in B.A.E. l4th A.R., pl. CX."
label: Notes
content: From Card: "Ghost Dance Staff, ca. 1889-92 Sioux Indians; South Dakota, wood, buffalo horn, hair, hair dye, hide, felt, glass beads... To begin most Sioux Ghost dances, the leader, while offering a prayer, waved a staff like this one over the heads of the celebrants. He then hung the staff, symbolizing the forces of growth, and other ritual objects on the sacred tree. Loaned to Renwick Gallery 2/11/82, returned 6/1983."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, South Dakota, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 026286
label: USNM Number
content: E165121-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Staff
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 144.8 cm
label: Width
content: 19 cm
label: Height
content: 5.1 cm