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Wooden beaded dance stick with painted handle and leather thong with pink feather / Unknown

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Dance stick is a more appropriate term to use compared to dance wand. Commercially turned stick that's been beaded into a dance stick. This stick would have been used for ceremonial events like a pow wow. This dance stick would have been used by a man.
Tags: dance stick, bead work, paint, peyote stitch bead work, gold, Pink, purple, gourd stitching, fur, pink feather
People: Native American
Places: Oklahoma
Purpose: ceremonial events

From interviews with Dr. Garrick Bailey, 2018-2020 University of Tulsa, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology

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Title(s): 
Wooden beaded dance stick with painted handle and leather thong with pink feather
Creator(s): 
Unknown
Culture: 
Native American
Date: 
20th century
Place: 
Oklahoma
Materials/Techniques: 
wood, glass, hide, fur, cotton, lacquer, feather
Classification: 
Ethnographic Objects
Object Type: 
Dance Stick
Credit Line: 
Gift of Mary Thompson Bryan and Lawrence E. Bryan
Accession No: 
84.3036
Previous Number(s): 
TL1999.54.39; TL1999.54.39
Department: 
Anthropology
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