Staff (uncertain)
NA8497
From: United States of America | Alaska | Sitka (uncertain)
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | NA8497 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Tlingit |
| Provenience | United States of America | Alaska | Sitka (uncertain) |
| Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
| Locus | Sitka Kaagwaantaan Clan? | Eagle's Nest House? |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Wood | Opercula |
| Description | Ceremonial dance staff and rattle. A long piece of wood is rounded and carved with a longitudinal groove along one side to form the rattle. Each end is inlaid with multiple columns of five opercula shells. |
| Length | 144 cm |
| Width | 4.6 cm |
| Credit Line | Wanamaker Expedition to the Northwest Coast; Louis Shotridge, 1918 |
| Other Number | SJ1? - Field No SF | 331? - Other Number |
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