The bulawa (Latin [Polish] spelling: buława; Ukraine, булава [bulava]) is a ceremonial mace or baton. The word is of Ukrainian language - "the cone" origin. Historically the buława was an attribute of a hetman, an officer of the highest military rank (a Field or Grand Hetman of Ukraine, or of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth; and the Otaman of Ukraine) or the military head of a Cossack state. Hetmans typically added an image of a buława to their coats of arms.