Staff
- Museum number:
- 2-5244
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020005244
- Alternate number:
- 53 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.131 and Acc.52
- Description:
- Staff with a crook at the top. Made of ash wood. Decorated with lynx fur and the feathers of the mottled eagle. Metal blade set in at top.
- Donor:
- David Ives Bushnell Jr., G. B. Gordon, Phoebe Apperson Hearst, and W. C. Farabee
- Collection place:
- Central Plains, Great Plains, North America
- Verbatim coll. place:
- ; Central Plains
- Culture or time period:
- Umoⁿhoⁿ
- Collector:
- Francis La Flesche
- Collection date:
- 1901-1902
- Taxon:
- Accipitridae
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 3.1 Status Objects and Insignia of Office
- Accession date:
- 1904 and September 8, 1902
- Context of use:
- Staff belongs to the leader of the people at the tribal buffalo hunt; kept in the Sacred Tent with the White Buffalo Hide when in camp. Carried during the surround and thrust in the ground as a signal for the hunt to charge. Standard of the Omaha Tokala
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- height 227 centimeters, depth 7 centimeters, and width 40 centimeters
- Comment:
- Native name and meaning: "washabe" - an object seen at a distance (dark). Materials, techniques: For manufacture cf. p. 276, "The Omaha Tribe". Photo: 13/98. Exhibited: UCLMA, "Plains Indians", 1971. References: p. 278-283, "The Omaha Tribe", BAE 27; Fletcher & LaFlesche. See Accession envelope #52 for additional information. Staff belongs to the leader of the people at the tribal buffalo hunt; kept in the Sacred Tent with the White Buffalo Hide when in camp. Carried during the surround and thrust in the ground as a signal for the hunt to charge. Standard of the Omaha Tokala.
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