Carved wooden staff

Carved wooden staff

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Carved wooden staff, plain stick surmounted by four pod-shaped projections like the flight of an arrow, band of concertina-like discs below, said to be Zulu tribe, South Africa, 1880-1920

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A160469
Materials:
wood
Measurements:
height 1550 mm
diameter 21 mm
finial: diameter 42 mm
type:
staffs