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Wooden drumstick with leather head and carved handle
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Stomp dance wooden drumstick with rubber tip / Unknown

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This is most likely a pow wow drumstick. The top circular portion of the drumstick would have been used to pound the drum.

Tags: leathe, rleather fringe, pow wow drumstick, wood, metal, rubber
People: Creek
Places: Oklahoma
Purpose: pow wow, dances

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

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Title(s): 
Stomp dance wooden drumstick with rubber tip
Creator(s): 
Unknown
Culture: 
Native American; Muscogee (Creek)
Date: 
early 1900s
Materials/Techniques: 
wood, rubber, leather, metal
Classification: 
Ethnographic Objects
Object Type: 
Drumstick
Credit Line: 
Gift of the family of Wilford R. Gay
Accession No: 
84.3213
Previous Number(s): 
TL2005.28.1-2; TL2005.28.2
Department: 
Anthropology
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