Context (CMS Context)
Collected by Cooke Daniels Ethnographical Expedition, 1903.
Event Date 1/6/1997
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Dancing stick made of a long bamboo joint with forked top and lateral openings in base; a fringe of seed rattles surrounds the middle.
Event Date 1/6/1997
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Length of hollow bamboo with node at each third; top third cut to form V-shape; bottom third has lateral section cut away with tufts of bamboo fibre at end. Rectangular perforations on each side above central node. Centre decorated with Pangium edule seed pods tied on with twisted plant fibre cord and red cotton cord.
Event Date 2/4/2017
Author: heather donoghue

Description (Labels & Markings)
Inscription on side of object reads: [Handwritten in blue pencil:] 'ARUA GANIGA HOHODAE'.

Expedition label made by Dennison & Co. reads: [Handwritten in black ink by Charles Seligman:] '62'.

Museum sticker adhered to side of object reads: [Handwritten in black ink by Gerald Montagu Benton:] 'Daniels Ethnographical Expedition. | E.1905.238. Koita Dancing Stick New Guinea. Major W. Cooke Daniels, 1905.'

Museum inscription on side of object reads: [Handwritten in black ink:] '05.238'

Event Date 2/4/2017
Author: heather donoghue

Context (Field collection)
Collected during the Daniels Ethnographical Expedition to British New Guinea, led by Major William Cooke Daniels and Dr. Charles Seligman, accompanied by Dr. Walter Mersh Strong and Mr A.H. Dunning, 1903-1904.

Event Date 2/4/2017
Author: Heather Donoghue

Context (Other owners)
Object appears as item 62 on Charles Seligman's catalogue of objects donated to the museum on behalf of William Cooke Daniels, see MAA Archive OA2/12/9: 'Koita Dancing Stick'. Following the expedition, Seligman catalogued and donated the collections on the understanding they were a gift from Cooke Daniels, the expedition's primary funder.
Event Date 2/4/2017
Author: Heather Donoghue

Context (Other)
Catalogue card reads: [Handwritten in black ball point:] '1905.238 MELANESIA NEW GUINEA KOITA B.N.G. A DANCING STICK (L 5' 8") made of a long bamboo joint with forked top and lateral openings in base: a fringe of seed rattles surrounds the middle. Collected by Cooke-Daniels Ethnographical Expedition 1903 Maj. W. Cooke-Daniels R.1906 866'; [later addition handwritten in black ink: '(TRIBE) [referring to Koita]) S. E. COAST'. [Red circular sticker top right of card.]
Event Date 2/4/2017
Author: heather donoghue