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- Title
- Staff
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Yaka Peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Physical Description
- A stylized human head with an elaborate coiffure, sitting atop a larger animal head with scarification marks below the eyes, tops a well-carved staff with angular handle and a zig-zag carved pattern below the handle. The eyes of both figures are set in shallow cavities and appear squinted or closed.
- Object Creation Date
- mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 2001/2.19
- Medium and Support
- wood
- relevance
- rank 22.29576
- Primary Keywords
- authority
- ceremonial staffs
- heads
- staff
- staffs (walking sticks)
- Title
- Staff
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Ndebele peoples South Africa
- Physical Description
- A wooden staff, covered with beads in solid colors (red, blue, green and orange) outlined in black against a background of white beads, with a sideways M pattern in the middle of the shaft on either side. A stylized head of open beadwork tops the staff, followed by a tight-fitting necklace-like band with a clasp in orange and green and a white band, above solid red and blue rings.
- Accession Number
- 2001/2.46
- Medium and Support
- wood with beads
- relevance
- rank 18.92847
- Primary Keywords
- beadwork
- ceremonial staffs
- Title
- Staff
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Pende peoples Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Physical Description
- Smooth staff, topped by a standing, slightly elongated, rectangular male figure with angular curves at the elbows and buttocks and the hands held in front of the stomach, just below the navel (the left arm is damaged). The big feet are carved as one piece, with small incisions for the individual toes.
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1900-1970
- Accession Number
- 2001/2.47
- Medium and Support
- wood
- relevance
- rank 18.72037
- Primary Keywords
- ceremonial staffs
- figurines
- staff
- Title
- Staff
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Kongo peoples Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Physical Description
- Short stick with a dark shiny patina, topped by a standing, male figure, wearing a European-style suit and brimmed hat, carrying a small box in his hands; followed by a standing female figure, unclothed, carrying a child on her back. Below are smaller figures, on either side respectively: a keeling figure, a turtle, and a bird; a brid, a turtle, a ram's horn and an ornamental motif, possibly a cross.
- Object Creation Date
- 1900-1970
- Accession Number
- 2001/2.64
- Medium and Support
- wood
- relevance
- rank 18.72037
- Primary Keywords
- ceremonial staffs
- figurines
- staff
- Title
- Staff
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Luba People Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Physical Description
- Two carved female figures, holding one arm over each other's back, an the other resting on the stomach decorated with lozenge motifs and scarification patterns; one figure is wearing a rope around the middle. A curving shaft supports the figures, broadening from the metal tip at the bottom into two bulging forms, divided by a dark black line through the middle, and covered in a carved pattern of triangles and lines on both front and back. The staff is heavy, with a nice shiny patina.
- Object Creation Date
- 1900-1940
- Accession Number
- 2001/2.76
- Medium and Support
- wood with metal
- relevance
- rank 18.72037
- Primary Keywords
- ceremonial staffs
- staff
- women
- Title
- Staff
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Kongo peoples Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Physical Description
- Elaborately carved staff with, from the top: a male figure wearing Western-style clothes, with painted eyes, eyebrows, mouth, moustache, hat and clothes, sitting on a simple stool, resting his hands on his knees; a U-shaped snake on one side and a mortar on the other; a pair of a male and a female figure on either side (the male is standing on one leg, bending the other at the knee to make a triangle); a dark black spherical form; a row of three turtles on one side and two salamanders and a frog on the other; and finally three outstretched snakes (painted yellow, brown and red, respectively), one of them eating a small frog.
- Object Creation Date
- 1900-1970
- Accession Number
- 2001/2.42
- Medium and Support
- wood, paint
- relevance
- rank 18.72037
- Primary Keywords
- ceremonial staffs
- figurines
- staff
- Title
- Staff
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Luba People Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Physical Description
- Janus heads with elaborate headgear top a staff with a long, thin shaft and broader hourglass-shaped sections with a stylized human head in the middle of each one. The staff is covered with carved geometrical patterns of triangles, lozenges and lines, and ends in a metal-coiled tip at the bottom; it is heavy and has a shiny black patina.
- Object Creation Date
- 1900-1940
- Accession Number
- 2001/2.75
- Medium and Support
- wood with metal
- relevance
- rank 18.72037
- Primary Keywords
- ceremonial staffs
- heads
- staff
- Title
- Staff
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Senufo Peoples, Côte d'Ivoire
- Physical Description
- A stylized animal head, with an elongated open mouth and horizontally positioned, flat ears, sits atop a staff with decorative carvings along the shaft.
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1950
- Accession Number
- 2001/2.25
- Medium and Support
- wood
- relevance
- rank 18.51679
- Primary Keywords
- animals
- ceremonial staffs
- heads
- staff
- Title
- Staff
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Pende peoples Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Physical Description
- A slightly curved staff, topped by a long, narrow handle, placed atop a carved human head, with simple hairdo and facial feautures. The shaft is covered by a snake coiling upward from the lower end of the staff.
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1900-1970
- Accession Number
- 2001/2.67
- Medium and Support
- wood
- relevance
- rank 18.31759
- Primary Keywords
- ceremonial staffs
- figurines
- human males
- staff
- Title
- Ogboni staff
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Yoruba Peoples Nigeria
- Physical Description
- Brass female figure, kneeling with buttocks on the heels, atop an iron staff. The protruding eyes, nose, and mouth convey a serene, dignified and somewhat withdrawn look. The figure has a beard around the face; she wears ornamentation in small holes atop the ears, cone-shaped headgear, and an elaborate necklace; there is a small spiral motif on the forehead, and two larger spiral motifs on the sides of the body. The hands are held in closed fists in front of the body, the left hand on top of the right.
- Object Creation Date
- 1900-1970
- Accession Number
- 2001/2.39
- Medium and Support
- brass, iron
- relevance
- rank 18.31759
- Primary Keywords
- authority
- ceremonial staffs
- figurines
- iron (metal)
- Title
- Staff
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Mali, Bambara
- Accession Number
- 2001/2.7
- Medium and Support
- wood with metal
- relevance
- rank 16.48979
- Primary Keywords
- bamana
- canes
- ceremonial staffs
- staff
- staff weapons
- woodwork
- Title
- Ritual Staff
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Mali, Dogon
- Century
- Probably 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- probably 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/1.69
- Medium and Support
- carved wood
- relevance
- rank 16.47599
- Primary Keywords
- artists
- birds
- ceremonial staffs
- figures
- figures (representations)
- men
- portraits
- staff