Figurally carved dance staff

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Description

wood, blotched brown patina, remains of kaolin, crowned by a seated janus figure, the headgear originally decorated with metal tags, min. dam., cracks, slight traces of abrasion;
figural carved dance staffs were used by young men. They ought to be as beautiful as possible (“buore”), so that their owners could “show off”.

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Comparing literature

Meyer, Piet, Kunst und Religion der Lobi, Zürich 1981, p. 152, ill. 204

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