Dance Stick
Joseph No Two Horns
1885
These were made to honor important horses after they died. I can't quite tell from this picture, but usually they'd make marks on the mid-section to symbolize the number of wounds the horse suffered. One end is the head and the other is a horse hoof. The stick would've been used in military ceremonies/dances either before or after battles to remind them of their ability of capturing horses, whether it was another tribe's or elsewhere. This specific one's from the Standing Rock Reservation in Lakota (Sioux), South Dakota.
