Staff

Museum number:
5-11711
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050011711
Alternate number:
B-1931 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
Accession number:
Acc.2819 and Acc.2916
Description:
Shango staff; carved wood, light in color, shaped like a double axe at the top, human face carved near the top of the staff (inlaid eyes), incised designs; 39.5 cm high, 12 cm wide.
Donor:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Igana, Oyo State, Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa; Nigeria; Igana; Yoruba; Collected at Igana in 1938
Culture or time period:
Yoruba
Maker or artist:
Baba Alawode [Yoruba]
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection date:
1938
Materials:
Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
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
Accession date:
1971 and December 15, 1972
Context of use:
Carved by Baba Alawode
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
height 39.5 centimeters and width 12 centimeters
Comment:
PAHMA Storage Loc: 20A, W-13-3 File Code: 5.3 [crossed out on card]; [handwritten on card: 5.1]
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Staff, accession number 5-11711, described as Shango staff; carved wood, light in color, shaped like a double axe at the top, human face carved near the top of the staff (inlaid eyes), incised designs; 39.5 cm high, 12 cm wide.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Staff, accession number 5-11711, described as Shango staff; carved wood, light in color, shaped like a double axe at the top, human face carved near the top of the staff (inlaid eyes), incised designs; 39.5 cm high, 12 cm wide.

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