Carved wooden ceremonial staff
- Made:
- 1871-1920
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Carved wooden ceremonial staff, short pole in the form of a human wearing a high, wedge-shaped headdress and culuminates in Kite-shaped ferrule, African, 1871-1920
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A160467
- Materials:
- wood
- Measurements:
-
height 340 mm
diameter 17 mm
finial: width 89 mm
finial: thickness 43 mm
ferrule: width 96 mm
- type:
- staffs
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