Object Number | NA5702 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Tlingit |
Provenience | Alaska |
Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
Section | American |
Materials | Wood |
Description | A wooden body stamp carved with a frog's foot or raven's foot design (Emmons, ed. de Laguna, 1991, p. 250). The design is carved in relief and includes a central eye with three feet above it. Handle at one end. The stamp would be coated in animal fat, then covered with colored pigments before being applied to a dancer's skin. |
Length | 15.5 cm |
Width | 4 cm |
Credit Line | Wanamaker Expedtion to the Northwest Coast, Louis Shotridge, 1917 |
Report problems and issues to digitalmedia@pennmuseum.org.