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Chief's Staff

Date1890-1904

Mediumcedar, paint

DimensionsOther: 6 × 146 cm (2 3/8 × 57 1/2 in.)

ClassificationsCeremonial Objects

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Haida

Paper Field ReferencesCMH VII-B-635

Object numberHRC 00635

Descriptiontall chief's stick. a long cylindrical stick of ccedar with a figure of a land otter (?) carved on the top. painted with red strips on the back of the otter, black on the tall, eyes and eyebrows.
collected in Skidegate.
Exhibition HistoryNational Gallery of Canada (11-71) - (72-3-1)

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