Stick · Tanzania, Kaguru · ID: 3035157
Peter Loebarth, Hameln, Germany (1991)
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.
The object Stick with the object ID 3035157 was last part of the auction 74th tribal art auction at September 7, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 445 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,000.
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Publications
Felix, Marc L., Mwana Hiti, München 1990, p. 307, ill. 133
Exhibition
"Mwana Hiti", Art of the matrilineal Bantu of Tanzania, Galerie Jahn, Stuttgart, 25. June - 20. July 1991