Stick · Tanzania, Kaguru · ID: 3035157
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.
Publications
Felix, Marc L., Mwana Hiti, München 1990, p. 307, ill. 133Exhibition
"Mwana Hiti", Art of the matrilineal Bantu of Tanzania, Galerie Jahn, Stuttgart, 25. June - 20. July 1991