Ceremonial staff made from the upper arm bone of a human
- maker:
- Yoruba people
Ceremonial staff made from the upper arm bone of a human, covered in gauze, decorated with conice shells, amuletic, smallpox ju-ju, Yoruba tribe, Nigeria, 1851-1900
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A657210
- Materials:
- bone, humorus of human, gauze, gum, ? material and cowrie
- type:
- human remains and staffs
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust
