Ceremonial wooden staff

Made:: 1801-1925

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Ceremonial wooden staff, called "kotaha" in vernacular, carved in form of crocodile or lizard with haliotis shell in lay for eyes, Maori, New Zealand, 1801-1925

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A162080

Materials:: wood and shell, haliotis

Measurements:: length 1155 mm
maximum: width 76 mm

type:: staffs

credit:: Glendining

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Ceremonial wooden staff

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