Carved wooden staff or culte-stare

Made:
1851-1900 in Nigeria
maker:
Yoruba people
Carved wooden staff or culte-stare Carved wooden staff or culte-stare

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Carved wooden staff or culte-stare
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Carved wooden staff or culte-stare
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Carved wooden staff or culte-stare, possibly phallic-shaped head, smallpox ju-ju or amulet used in certain rituals, Yoruba tribe, Nigeria, 1851-1900

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A657209
Materials:
wood
type:
staffs
credit:
Johnson, C.G.