Canne avec tête anthropomorphe "khùluor" ·  Burkina Faso, Lobi · ID: 3049025

Description

wood,

These sticks, carved from a curved tree branch, were used in many ways, for example as dance wand and as a divination implement.

When travelling, they were carried for protection, because outside the safe village there were dangers from malicious “koteé” spirits.