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Carved wooden staff
- maker:
- Yoruba people
![Carved wooden staff, cylindrical pillar on circular base](https://coimages.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/386/557/small_thumbnail_smg00057681.jpg)
![Carved wooden staff, cylindrical pillar on circular base](https://coimages.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/273/767/small_thumbnail_a657206__0001_.jpg)
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Carved wooden staff, cylindrical pillar on circular base, surmounted by head representing Shopono, Yoruba god, smallpox ju-ju, Yoruba tribe, Nigeria, 1851-1900
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A657206
- Materials:
- wood
- type:
- staffs
- credit:
- Johnson, C.G.