Stick

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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.

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Publications

Felix, Marc L., Mwana Hiti, München 1990, p. 307, ill. 133

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Exposition

"Mwana Hiti", Art of the matrilineal Bantu of Tanzania, Galerie Jahn, Stuttgart, 25. June - 20. July 1991

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