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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 28.07666
Primary Keywords: authority; ceremonial staffs; heads; staff; staffs (walking sticks)

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 25.28325
Primary Keywords: staff; staffs (walking sticks)

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 24.21821
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 24.21821
Primary Keywords: canes; kongo; solongo; staff; staffs (walking sticks); woodwork

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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 23.47651
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 23.23927
Primary Keywords: alabaster (mineral); christianity; england (country); globes (cartographic spheres); rivers; staffs (walking sticks)

Title: Staff
Artist: Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Lunda Circle Lwena?
Accession Number: 2001/2.24
Medium and Support: wood
relevance: rank 20.83087
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 18.92744
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

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