Carved wooden stave with spike handle and rattle top

Made:
1851-1900 in Lagos
maker:
Yoruba people
Carved wooden stave with spike handle and rattle top

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Carved wooden stave with spike handle and rattle top
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Carved wooden stave with spike handle and rattle top, inform of kneeling figure with elaborate headdress, accessory of Ifa cuet, Yoruba, West African, second half of 19th century

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A45824
Materials:
wood
Measurements:
height 260 mm
maximum: width 36 mm
type:
divination-staff
credit:
Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)

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