Carved wooden staff or cult-stave

Made:
1851-1900 in Nigeria
maker:
Yoruba people
Carved wooden staff or cult-stave

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Carved wooden staff or cult-stave
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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
type:
staffs
credit:
Johnson, C.G.