Twisted cane staff with handle in form of right hand grasping serpent
- Made:
- 1801-1900 in Papua New Guinea
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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
- Measurements:
-
length 1012 mm
max: width 61 mm
- type:
- staffs
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