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Dance staff
Object Number 09-8-10/75071
Display Title Dance staff
Descriptions
Inventory Description Staff, carved wood stick skin-covered, 4 bands of brown and yellow glass beads,
Classification
  • Staff
Department Ethnographic
Date 19th century (pre-1919)
Culture
  • Plains Cree
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Montana
Additional Geographic Terms Havre, Vicinity of
Materials Wood, Buckskin, Glass
Dimensions Overall: 135.4 x 2.2 x 2.2 cm (53 5/16 x 7/8 x 7/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 09-8-10/75071
Provenance
Collector Rev. J. W. Millar (1895-1900 - ?)
Donor Mr. Lewis Hobart Farlow (? - 1909)

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