Staff w/ metal blade; wood handle wrapped w/ sheet copper ornaments (serpent center, two right-angle crosses at top); copper blade with rooster finial inserted in club-like head; mounted on lucite stand; height of staff handle 49.5 cm.
Donor:
Kurt Mann and Mrs. Kurt Mann
Collection place:
Republic of Benin
Verbatim coll. place:
Dahomey; Fon
Culture or time period:
Fon
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Axes (tools)
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama