Wooden staff with globular head

Made:
1880-1920 in South Africa

Wooden staff with globular head, long stick originally covered with network of blue, white, red and black beads, triangular mesh, thread broken, half of pattern lost, Zulu tribe,(?), South African, 1880-1920

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A656669
Materials:
wood and glass, beads
type:
staffs