Tall wooden staff

Made:
1880-1930

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

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A163666
Materials:
wood
type:
staffs
credit:
Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)