Ceremonial wooden post with carved super structure in form of animals
- Made:
- 1880-1925
Ceremonial wooden post with carved super structure in form of animals, birds, human heads and surrmounting all male monkey, used as part of dance ritual, in vernacular "alusi ubo Nwasgazi", from Southern Nigeria, part of Jeffreys collection, 1880-1925
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A120764
- Materials:
- wood
- Measurements:
-
overall: 1290 mm x 250 mm x 200 mm, 3.14 kg
- type:
- ritual object and ceremonial post
- credit:
- Jeffreys, M.D.W.
