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Object Number 08-4-10/72816
Display Title Ceremonial staff
Descriptions
Inventory Description Feather staff, 2 rowsof feathers (1 row purple) attached to red cloth on pole
Classification
  • Staff
  • Raw Material
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Crow?
  • Sioux?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States
Dimensions Overall: 209.5 x 35.5 x 1.8 cm (82 1/2 x 14 x 11/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 08-4-10/72816
Provenance
Collector Grace A. Nicholson (?)
Donor Mr. Lewis Hobart Farlow (June, 1908)

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