Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Weapons and Ammunition (hierarchy name)
5. weapons
6. armaments
7. ceremonial weapons
8. ceremonial staffs

Anotations

Scope note:

Ceremonial staffs associated with power. They symbolized the taking of command or the transfer of an office from one person to another in Mexico in the postclassic period, and their use has continued through the colonial period into the present day.