Large carved wooden staff with rattle
- Made:
- 1880-1930
Large carved wooden staff, with rattle at top, carved in ligneous sections, top hollowed for stick (missing), finial shaped like human head, worm eaten, Benin, Southern Nigeria, 1880-1930
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A106309
- Materials:
- wood
- type:
- staffs
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)