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Object Number 13-9-10/85271
Display Title Dance staff
Descriptions
Inventory Description Staff, carved and painted zoomorphic figure, 1 leg missing, mended, cylindrical
Classification
  • Staff
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Makah
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Washington
Materials Wood, Pigment
Dimensions Overall: 3.8 x 136.6 x 11.5 cm (1 1/2 x 53 3/4 x 4 1/2 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 13-9-10/85271
Provenance
Collector Grace A. Nicholson
Dealer Grace A. Nicholson
Donor Mr. Lewis Hobart Farlow (1913)

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