Carved wooden staff or cult-stave
- maker:
- Yoruba people
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Carved wooden staff or cult-stave, cigar-shaped pillar oval base and ledge on which kneels a figure of the god Eshu or Shange, probably probably amuletic
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A657204
- Materials:
- wood
- Measurements:
-
height 650 mm
figure: height 300 mm
base: length 116 mm
base: width 97 mm
figure: length 95 mm
figure: width 120 mm
- type:
- staffs
- credit:
- Johnson, C.G.
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