Staff (male)

Museum number:

5-6283a

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Accession number:

Acc.2222

Donor:

Philip Peek and University Appropriation

Collection place:

Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria

Verbatim coll. place:

Africa; Nigeria; Ibadan; Yoruba (Murdock 31:31) Purch. from Yoruba trader in Ibadan

Culture or time period:

Yoruba

Collector:

Philip Peek

Collection date:

May 1965

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Carvings (visual works) and Men (male humans)

Function:

5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies

Accession date:

1966

Department:

Africa (except Ancient Egypt)