Object name: Staff / Object class: Sculpture (visual works) / Collection place: Nigeria

Museum number:: 5-11711
Culture or time period:: Yoruba
Object class:: Carvings (visual works)
Maker or artist:: Baba Alawode [Yoruba]
Function:: 5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Dimensions:: height 39.5 centimeters and width 12 centimeters
Collector:: Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:: Igana, Oyo State, Nigeria
Collection date:: 1938

Museum number:: 5-7684
Culture or time period:: Yoruba
Object class:: Carvings (visual works)
Maker or artist:: Oke Akanbi
Function:: 5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Dimensions:: height 57.5 centimeters and width 17 centimeters
Collector:: William Russell Bascom
Collection place:: Nigeria
Collection date:: 1961

Museum number:: 5-11712
Culture or time period:: Yoruba
Object class:: Carvings (visual works)
Maker or artist:: Baba Alawode [Yoruba]
Function:: 5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Dimensions:: width 12.5 centimeters and length 46 centimeters
Collector:: Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:: Nigeria
Collection date:: 1938

Museum number:: 5-14943
Culture or time period:: Yoruba
Object class:: Carvings (visual works)
Maker or artist:: Duga of Meko
Function:: 5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Dimensions:: length 128.4 centimeters
Collector:: Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:: Nigeria
Collection date:: 1951

Museum number:: 5-8597
Culture or time period:: Yoruba
Object class:: Carvings (visual works)
Function:: 5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Dimensions:: height 34.3 centimeters
Collector:: unknown
Collection place:: Nigeria
Collection date:: unknown

Museum number:: 5-10318
Culture or time period:: Yoruba
Object class:: Carvings (visual works)
Function:: 5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Dimensions:: height 64 centimeters
Collection place:: Nigeria
Collection date:: before 1977

Museum number:: 5-7640
Culture or time period:: Yoruba
Object class:: Carvings (visual works)
Function:: 5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Dimensions:: width 12 centimeters and height 34 centimeters
Collector:: LeRoy M. Law
Collection place:: Nigeria
Collection date:: ca. 1967

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