Object Number | AF2042 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Yoruba (uncertain) |
Provenience | Nigeria | Benin Kingdom |
Date Made | 19th century CE |
Section | African |
Materials | Brass | Wood |
Description | Staff with elongated truncate finial terminating in a circle, shaft begins at base of circle. Sides of finial covered with thin brass sheet, studded throughout top and middle of shaft segmented by three sections of thin strips of happered brass wrapped around shaft grip, bottom section of shaft is undecorated. |
Length | 148.9 cm |
Credit Line | Purchased from W. O. Oldman, 1912 |
Other Number | 27782 - Dealer's Number |
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