Carved wooden staff or culte-stare
- maker:
- Yoruba people
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Carved wooden staff or culte-stare, possibly phallic-shaped head, smallpox ju-ju or amulet used in certain rituals, Yoruba tribe, Nigeria, 1851-1900
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A657209
- Materials:
- wood
- type:
- staffs
- credit:
- Johnson, C.G.
