- Date
- 1900 – 1930
- Material
- wood; bone; horn; glass; feathers; fibre; skin
- Catalogue Number
- 109.02.1037 a-d
- Description
- Bead wrapped wooden sticks with bone and/or horn points (a) wooden circle 7.0 dia. on end, wrapped with green and mauve beads. 2 groups of feathers hang from circle. 3 golden eagle tail and 3 hawk wingfeathers, shaft wrapped with cotton, beads attached. Bands of green, maroon and mauve. Double bar…
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- Title
- Dancing Sticks
- Date
- 1900 – 1930
- Material
- wood; bone; horn; glass; feathers; fibre; skin
- Description
- Bead wrapped wooden sticks with bone and/or horn points (a) wooden circle 7.0 dia. on end, wrapped with green and mauve beads. 2 groups of feathers hang from circle. 3 golden eagle tail and 3 hawk wingfeathers, shaft wrapped with cotton, beads attached. Bands of green, maroon and mauve. Double barbed point 29.3 long is bone (b) 5.5 at base tapers to 2.3 at top. Completely cloth covered, bottom half rows of beads, blue, maroon, yellow. Double barbed point 25.0 long is bone, top has 2 bovine horns, points 16.0 apart, nailed onto shaft. 2 strips of hide ca 3.0 wide over top and around base join (c) forked willow stick, cloth wrapped, beads in bands of blue, yellow,red. 1/5 of beads missing. Short buckskin fringe at bottom of fork and at join of point. Point is 17.0 long antler carved at end for sharper point, gouge each side, fork painted yellow, blue, red. (d) forked willow stick, similar to (c)except more beads missing, fork complete, point missing.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- lore
- ceremonial
- Deer Lodge
- souvenirs
- sacred
- Credit
- Gift of Robert Crosby, Banff, 1985
- Catalogue Number
- 109.02.1037 a-d
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