Special Value Offer: Hopi Wood Dance Wand [SOLD]

Special Value Offer: The consignor has agreed to a 25% price reduction from the original price of $350 to a new price of $250.

Dance wands are customarily carried by the women during some dances.  They are flat wood panels with a handle at the end.  Decorations may be of any variety of subjects.  This one has a green frog with black dots as the sole item of design.  Water creatures are always considered fertility indicators so perhaps the frog is used on the wand in a fertility dance. It also could be a clan symbol.

Condition:  very good condition with obvious ethnographic wear patterns

Provenance: from the collection of a Santa Fe resident

Recommended Reading:  Hopi material culture: Artifacts gathered by H. R. Voth in the Fred Harvey Collection by Barton Wright