Object name: Staff / Object class: Carvings (visual works) / Materials: Wood (plant material)

Museum number:: 16-20456
Culture or time period:: Early Chimú (Moche Civilization) (ca. 100 BC–700 AD)
Object class:: Carvings (visual works)
Dimensions:: height 2.8 centimeters, width 10.5 centimeters, and length 30.5 centimeters
Collector:: Arthur Beynon and Evelyn Beynon
Collection place:: Moche valley, La Libertad Region, Northern Peru

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:: 16-20406
Culture or time period:: Early Chimú (Moche Civilization) (ca. 100 BC–700 AD)
Object class:: Carvings (visual works)
Dimensions:: length 55.5 centimeters and width 6 centimeters
Collector:: Arthur Beynon and Evelyn Beynon
Collection place:: Peru

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:: width 17 centimeters and height 57.5 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:: length 46 centimeters and width 12.5 centimeters
Collector:: Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:: Nigeria
Collection date:: 1938

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:: 11-44097
Culture or time period:: Oceanian cultures
Object class:: Carvings (visual works) and Ceremonial staffs
Function:: 1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control
Dimensions:: Rectangle— length 13.25 centimeters, Rectangle— width 4.5 centimeters, and Staff— length 90.5 centimeters
Collector:: Robert M. Wales
Collection place:: South Pacific Islands
Collection date:: 1945

Museum number:: 2-4674
Culture or time period:: Tlingit
Object class:: Carvings (visual works)
Function:: 5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Dimensions:: length 122 centimeters
Collector:: unknown
Collection place:: Northwest Coast, United States
Collection date:: unknown

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