Stick
Tanzania, Kaguru
sold
EUR 1,000
Provenance
Fred Jahn, Munich, GermanyPeter Loebarth, Hameln, Germany (1991)
Size
H: 95 cm
H: 37.4 inch
Description
wood, greyish brown patina, thick encrusted, round staff, five-sided handle zone with incised rhomb pattern, above a node crowned by an anthropomorphic head, slightly dam., minor chips of encrusted patina, metal socle;
such sticks were sometimes used by leaders as emblems of rank, but mainly by ritualists to cast spells and cleanse people, houses, or ritual enclosures.