Brass staffs with male and female figures, Yoruba Nigeria, 1870-1970

Made:: 1870-1970 in Nigeria

maker:: Yoruba people

Brass figurated staffs, linked male and female, edan Ogboni

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Brass figurated staffs, linked male and female, edan Ogboni
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Brass figurated staffs, linked male and female, edan Ogboni, Yoruba, from Nigeria, 1870-1970

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Object Number:: 1984-1546

Materials:: brass and chain & spike, iron

Measurements:: approx: height 250 mm
with spike, approx: height 310 mm

type:: staffs

credit:: McGill, H.

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