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Coup stick
Artist:
SIOUX PROB. HUNKPAPA
Medium: steel, wood, weasel skin, rawhide, horsehair, feathers, textile
Dimensions:
Other: 177 cm (69 11/16 in.)
Classification: Weapons and Ammunition
Credit Line: Gift of Ogden B. Read
Object number: 1881.3.1
DescriptionElongated steel blade, willow shaft wrapped with quill plaiting and weasel skins. Four groups of pendant weasel strips bound at intervals around lance with rawhide thongs. Bundle of hawk feathers and horsehair fastened at base of blade with hide thong. Red ribbon fastened at base.
Not on view
In Collection(s)
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