Chiefi staff
- Made:
- 1851-1920
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Chiefi staff, wooden, painted black, decorated with elaborated carving and set with 3 halichs shells, paddle-shaped, possibly tourist, Maori, New Zealand, 1851-1920
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A301769
- Materials:
- wood and shell, mother of pearl, haliotis
- Measurements:
-
approx: length 1070 mm
max: width 143 mm
- type:
- staffs
