Ceremonial Baton Or Staff Of Wood
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1877
name: label: Donor Name
content: Prof William M. Gabb
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Representing unknown animal with bird on crown of head. 25th Ann. Rep't. Bur. Amer. Ethnol., p. 195, Pl. LXXXIX. Illus. in ARSI, 1930, Pl. 34, p. 556. Loaned to the Museo del Hombre Dominicano January 14, 1975."
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 1, p. 116, and Fig. 5 and 6, p. 117, in "On the Trail of W.M. Gabb and His Ancient Lizard Staff", by David Bernstein with Dicey Taylor, in Tribal Art (magazine) Winter 2013 XVIII-1, No. 70, pp. 116-119. Identified there as Iguana deity staff, Moche, Peru, AD 100-700 (previously believed to be a Taino war club from the Dominican Republic.). Author theorizes in the article that William Gabb may have obtained the staff from Antonio Raimondi, the Peruvian naturalist, who Gabb had had dealings with, and who was Gabb's sole point of contact with Peru.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Dominican Republic / Peru, Caribbean / South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Prehistoric (?)
label: Culture
content: Prehistoric (Moche?) (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 005890
label: USNM Number
content: A42664-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Staff