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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 14.18219

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 9.61499

Primary Keywords

beadwork

ceremonial staffs

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 9.50928

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 9.50928

Primary Keywords

ceremonial staffs

staff

women

Title

Staff

Artist

Artist Unknown, African, Ngbaka peoples Democratic Republiic of the Congo

Physical Description

Elaborately carved staff with angular forms along the shaft and topped with a figurine with a rounded head, heart-shaped face and two stylized arms resting on the stomach. A large Z-shaped handle is carved in the middle of the shaft, with a series of cubes and conical forms above and beneath it.

Object Creation Date

1930-1970

Accession Number

2001/2.36

Medium and Support

wood

relevance

rank 9.50928

Primary Keywords

figurines

initiations

staff

staffs

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 9.50928

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 9.50928

Primary Keywords

ceremonial staffs

heads

staff

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 9.50928

Primary Keywords

ceremonial staffs

figurines

staff

Title

Staff

Artist

Artist Unknown, African, Zulu peoples South Africa

Physical Description

Slightly curved staff, topped by two snakes spiraling around each other, followed by an open-worked carving of three smaller "pillars" set between ornamental carved elements above and below. On the lower half of the staff are a series of carved, protruding knobs distributed around all sides of the shaft between carved ornamental bands.

Object Creation Date

circa 1950

Accession Number

2001/2.56

Medium and Support

wood

relevance

rank 9.50928

Primary Keywords

staff

staffs (walking sticks)

Title

Staff

Artist

African, Congo (Zaire), Tabwa

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1920

Accession Number

1987/1.153

Medium and Support

wood and iron

relevance

rank 9.40587

Primary Keywords

african

head

staffs (walking sticks)

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 9.40587

Primary Keywords

animals

ceremonial staffs

heads

staff

Title

Staff

Artist

Artist Unknown, African, Tanzania, Fipa

Accession Number

2001/2.63

Medium and Support

wood with metal

relevance

rank 9.30469

Primary Keywords

men

staff

staffs (walking sticks)

woodwork

Title

Staff

Artist

Artist Unknown, African, Yoruba Peoples Nigeria

Physical Description

Wooden staff covered with beads, displaying a zigzag pattern in blue, white, red, yellow, green and pink along the shaft, with an iron point at the base. The finial (top of the staff) consists of an equestrian, mostly in green, wearing elaborate red-and-yellow headgear, holding a staff and riding a multicolored horse, which stands on a rectangular platform adorned with a veil of ropes of beads.

Object Creation Date

circa 1950

Accession Number

2001/2.45

Medium and Support

wood with beads, metal, cloth

relevance

rank 9.30469

Primary Keywords

beadwork

equestrians

figures

figurines

staff

staffs

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 9.30469

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 9.30469

Primary Keywords

authority

ceremonial staffs

figurines

iron (metal)

Title

Staff

Artist

Artist Unknown, African, Wananesi

Accession Number

2001/2.58

Medium and Support

wood

relevance

rank 9.30469

Primary Keywords

canes

staff

staffs (walking sticks)

woodwork

Title

Staff

Artist

Artist Unknown, African, Angola, Chokwe

Accession Number

2001/2.50

Medium and Support

wood

relevance

rank 9.30469

Primary Keywords

chokwe

staff

staffs (walking sticks)

woodwork

Title

'Les Gueux' or 'Les Mendiants'. Les Deux Pèlerins (The Two Pilgrims)

Artist

Jacques Callot

Physical Description

Two rough figures dominate the composition with a lightly etched landscape behind them. Both figures hold a staff and each is dressed in ragged clothes. In addition, the scallop shell, indicating that they are pilgrims to the shrine of St. James the Greater at Santiago de Compostela, is visible on the brims of their hats, and on the left shoulder of the man standing to the right.

Artist Life Dates

1592/3-1635

Century

17th century

Object Creation Date

1622-1628

Accession Number

1949/1.146

Medium and Support

etching on laid paper

relevance

rank 9.10871

Primary Keywords

beggars

peasants

pilgrims

shell, sea

staffs (walking sticks)

Title

Staff

Artist

Artist Unknown, African, Republic of the Congo, Kongo, Solongo

Accession Number

2001/2.53

Medium and Support

wood

relevance

rank 9.10871

Primary Keywords

canes

kongo

solongo

staff

staffs (walking sticks)

woodwork

Title

The Detraction of Good Things [Detractio Bonorum] from Sebastian Brant's "Stultifera navis [The Ship of Fools]" published by Johann Bergmann

Artist

Anonymous

Physical Description

Text on both sides. One side has the image of a man with dogs at his feet. There is also a jester at his feet, kneeling down.

Century

15th century

Accession Number

2013/2.550.1-2

Medium and Support

woodcut on paper

relevance

rank 8.82975

Primary Keywords

bones (objects)

books

cats

dogs

ears

fountains

satire

staffs (walking sticks)

Title

St. Christopher carrying the Christ Child

Artist

Artist Unknown, England

Physical Description

A standing, bearded figure of St. Christopher, broken off at the knees, holds the Christ child on his right shoulder while leaning upon a staff in his left hand. The child, whose head is encircled by a halo, wears a long cloak over his robe and rests his left hand upon an orb in his lap. The red and brown polychromy is a later addition.

Century

15th century

Object Creation Date

circa 15th century

Accession Number

1961/1.178

Medium and Support

alabaster with polychrome and gilding

relevance

rank 8.74052

Primary Keywords

alabaster (mineral)

christianity

england (country)

globes (cartographic spheres)

rivers

staffs (walking sticks)

Title

Staff

Artist

Artist Unknown, African, Mali, Bambara

Accession Number

2001/2.7

Medium and Support

wood with metal

relevance

rank 8.37623

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 8.36922

Primary Keywords

artists

birds

ceremonial staffs

figures

figures (representations)

men

portraits

staff

Title

Arms of Prince Rudolph II von Scherenberg, Bishop of Würzburg

Artist

Master AG

Artist Life Dates

(active 1475 - 1490)

Century

15th century

Object Creation Date

1482

Accession Number

1984/2.42

Medium and Support

engraving on paper

relevance

rank 7.84151

Primary Keywords

angel

coat of arms

figures

figures (representations)

lions

staff

staffs (staff weapon components)

winged

Title

Staff

Artist

Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Lunda Circle Lwena?

Accession Number

2001/2.24

Medium and Support

wood

relevance

rank 7.83470

Primary Keywords

bust

busts

figures

figures (representations)

heads (representations)

staff

staffs (walking sticks)

woodwork

Title

Nydia, the Blind Flower Girl of Pompeii

Artist

Randolph Rogers

Physical Description

A white marble statue of a young female figure, leaning forward holding a staff with eyes closed, her left hand held up to her right ear. A flowing, wind-swept garment drapes the figure. On the base to the left of the figure is a broken capital of a Corinthian column lying on its side.

Artist Life Dates

1825-1892

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

1861

Accession Number

1862.1

Medium and Support

Carrara marble

relevance

rank 7.11880

Primary Keywords

allegory

blind

blind (people)

capitals

corinthian (architectural style)

figures (representations)

girl

girls

marble

mythology (literary genre)

neoclassical

nydia

pompeii

pompeii (deserted settlement)

sculpture

staff

staffs (walking sticks)

standing

statues

stone

women