Wooden ceremonial staff or ceremonial adze(?) blad
- Made:
- 1851-1910
This image is released under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Licence
License this image for commercial use at Science and Society Picture Library
LicenseWooden ceremonial staff or ceremonial adze(?) blade missing
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Wooden ceremonial staff or ceremonial adze(?) blade missing, shaft square and decorated with openwork design, finial bound with fibre, possibly Oceanean, 1851-1910
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A656773
- Materials:
- wood and fibre, ? bambool
- Measurements:
-
with finial: length 950 mm
finial: width 127 mm
shaft: width 58 mm
- type:
- staffs
Related Objects
Small skin medicine man's bag, hung with chains
Circular cake of tobacco compressed in the form of a round loaf
Mammalian skin medicine man's bag
Necklace, shells and seed threaded on cotton cord with depilatory forceps attached
