Paduak wood ceremonial staff
- Made:
- 1851-1900
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Paduak wood ceremonial staff, club-shaped handle carved with male and female phallic sumbols to give the appearance of a human face Congolese or Cameroon grasslands, 1851-1900
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A655910
- Materials:
- padauk, pterocarpus soyauxii
- type:
- staffs
