Carved wooden staff

Carved wooden staff

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Carved wooden staff, long narrow, pole carved with a variety of figures, human and zoomorphic, known as The Speaker's staff or chief's talking stick, Kwakuitl tribe(?) Varnarsdal(?) British Columbia, Canada, 1880-1920

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Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A28354
Materials:
wood
type:
staffs