Twisted cane staff with handle in form of right hand grasping serpent
- Made:
- 1801-1900 in Papua New Guinea
Twisted cane staff with handle in form of right hand grasping serpent, part of serpent missing, inscribed curpinch stick, may be European or from Papua New Guinea, 19th century
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A51941
- Materials:
- cane and ferrule, brass
- type:
- staffs