Baton
NA9496
Location: On Display in the Native North America Gallery
From: United States of America | Alaska | Sitka (uncertain) | Angoon (uncertain)
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | NA9496 |
| Current Location | Native North America Gallery - On Display |
| Culture | Tlingit |
| Provenience | United States of America | Alaska | Sitka (uncertain) | Angoon (uncertain) |
| Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
| Date Made | ca. 1900 CE |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Wood | Pigment |
| Description | Painted dance baton called the "Sign of Absolute Peace." Formline designs are painted onto the flat baton in green, red, and black pigments. Designs include a face close to the handle, a hole carved into the wood above the face, an eye on the diagonal above the hole, and another face within a circle toward the distal end of the baton. Painted designs are repeated on the reverse. The handle is a simply carved, "T" shaped piece of wood. |
| Length | 87 cm |
| Width | 20.9 cm |
| Depth | 2.22 cm |
| Credit Line | Wanamaker Expedition to the Northwest Coast; Louis Shotridge, 1923 |
| Other Number | Shotridge #39 or 40 - Other Number |
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