Northern Traditional Dance Staff

This beautifully handmade staff would be carried by the War Chief from the Warrior Society. It would also be used as a Flag Stick.

 “This who we are, this our belief, it our flag of the Abenaki”.

 Includes:

• 14 goose feathers (look like bald eagle)
• 14,000 green & yellow seed beads
• Stick wrapped in deer skin with glass tile beads
• 3 point antler from North American deer
• 7 stripes stand for the 7 thunder beings
• North American otter winter for stand for the 12 main Abenaki villages, Odanak being Bob’s home
• Just over 4 feet in length

 Made By Artist Bob Charlebois, Odanak Village