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Carved wooden ceremonial staff, short pole in the

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1920

Carved wooden staff, ceremonial, tapering stick su

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920

Ceremonial wooden staff, called "kotaha" in vernac

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1801-1925

Carved wooden staff, ceremonial, straight handle,

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

180-1920

Wooden stick, with pointed handle, and saw-teeth m

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1870-1910

Carved wooden staff, plain stick surmounted by fou

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920

Carved wooden ceremonial staff, slender pole swoll

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1920

Carved wooden staff, ceremonal, finial in the form

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1897

Wooden ceremonial club, long cylindrical handle wi

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1925

Ceremonial shears with brass knob handle, decorate

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1801-1930

Carved wooden ceremonial staff, long slender rod,

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1910

Carved wooden staff in the form of a spear, chequered pattern in black on head, South African (?) 1871-1920

Carved wooden staff in the form of a spear, cheque

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1920

Wooden stick with pointed handle and saw blade mad

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1870-1920

Carved wooden staff, with rattle incoporated into

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1930

Carved wooden staff, ceremonial, in the form of a

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1920

Chiefi staff, wooden, painted black, decorated wit

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1851-1920

Pointed wooden stick with saw teeth made of flints

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1870-1910

Carved wooden staff wand of office, female figure

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1920

Carved wooden staff, long pole surmounted by angul

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920

Carved wooden staff, long narrow pole topped by sp

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1920

Carved wooden staff, long slender rod topped by gr

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920

Ceremonial saw consisting of wooden stick with row

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1801-1925

Wooden stick, with pointed handle, and saw teeth m

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1870-1900

Carved wooden staff, long narrow, pole carved with

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920

Wooden stick, with pointed handle and saw teeth ma

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1870-1910

Carved wooden staff with rattle at top, carved in

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1930

Large carved wooden staff, with rattle at top, car

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1930

Wooden ceremonial staff with brass head and ferrule in the form of a state crown, issued by the British Government to a Nigerian, "3rd Class Chief", English, 1880-1920

Wooden ceremonial staff with brass head and ferrul

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920

Ceremonial(?) saw-toothed staff of carved wood wit

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1870-1910

Paduak wood ceremonial staff

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1851-1900

Wooden ceremonial staff or ceremonial adze(?) blad

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1851-1910

Carved wooden staff with rattle at top, carved in

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1930

Cane drinking tube, curving mouthpiece, coiled with fine grasses, filter at one end, probably used for wine or mead, Masai, East African, 1890-1930

Cane drinking tube, curving mouthpiece, coiled wit

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1930

Ceremonial rice cutter, in form of tiger, with second head, possibly peacock's, at end of long neck forming blade, made of steel and brass, from Darjeeling, Indian, 1870-1920

Ceremonial rice cutter, in form of tiger, with sec

Asian Medicine

1870-1920

Carved wooden ceremonial staff, hollow pole filled with seeds for rattling effect, culminates in mythological head topped by representation of the "copper", Tsimshian tribe, North West coast, Canadian, 1871-1900

Carved wooden ceremonial staff, hollow pole filled

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1900

Horse hair fly whisk with leather bound handle containing amulets, from Sudan, 1880-1920

Horse hair fly whisk with leather bound handle con

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920

Tall wooden staff, tatemic in appearance, cylindrical, tapering towards ground, carved with numerous anthropomorphic figures of a phallic nature, painted in red and lime-yellow, West Africa, 1880-1930

Tall wooden staff, tatemic in appearance, cylindri

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1930

Ceremonial cane drinking tube, curving mouthpiece coiled fine grasses filter at one end, probably used for wine or mead, Masai, East Africa, 1880-1930

Ceremonial cane drinking tube, curving mouthpiece

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1930