Carved wooden stave with spike handle and rattle top
- maker:
- Yoruba people
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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
- type:
- divination-staff
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)
