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Dance Wand (Bair)
Tolai people
late 19th–early 20th century

Bloodletter Handle
Olmec
700–600 BCE

Ritual Sword
Tibet
16th–17th century

Ceremonial ax
China
ca. 500 BCE

Royal Presentation Sword
Thai
18th century

Congressional Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Peleg K. Dunham (1794–1822)
William Rose Sr., 1783–1856
1817

Ceremonial Ax
China
13th–11th century BCE

Dance Wand (Manayawi)
Hopi
19th–20th century

Ceremonial Ax
Indonesia
ca. 500 BCE–300 CE

Socket from a Ceremonial Spearhead or Staff, Decorated with the Name of the Fourth Dalai Lama
Tibetan or Mongolian
ca. 1607–17

ca. 1184–664 B.C.

Presentation Sword Honoring Commandant Jean-Baptiste Marchand (1863–1934) for His Conduct at Fashoda
Jean-Joseph-Marie-Anatole Marquet de Vasselot
1889

Hilt of a Ritual Sword
Tibetan
16th–17th century

Dance Wand
Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka)
1890–1900

Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Brigadier General Daniel Davis (1777–1814) of the New York Militia
John Targee
ca. 1815–17

Dance wand
Santa Cruz Islands
late 19th–early 20th century

Ceremonial Knife
China

Dance Wand (Rei)
Sulka people
late 19th–early 20th century

Dance Wand
Native American (Tlingit)
19th century

Presentation Sword

French

1785

Dress Sword with belt

blade, German, Solingen; hilt and belt, Portuguese

blade dated 1767; hilt, 1810; belt, 18th century

Ceremonial Staff

Japanese

ca. 1615–1868