Ceremonial staff made from the upper arm bone of a

Made:: 1851-1900 in Nigeria

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

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Object Number:: A657210

Materials:: bone, humorus of human, cowrie, gauze, gum, ? material

type:: staffs

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credit:: Wellcome Trust

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