Wood scepter - hat ball - shaped end – Objects

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Object Number 29-43-50/B4755

Display Title Wood scepter - hat ball - shaped end

Descriptions

Inventory Description Staff, carved wood, large knobbed end, plain body, slightly abraded

Classification

Staff

Department Ethnographic

Culture

Bantu speaking peoples
Zulu

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

Africa

Additional Geographic Terms Africa, South central

Materials Wood

Dimensions Overall: 76.2 x 7.4 x 7 cm (30 x 2 15/16 x 2 3/4 in.)

Quantity 1

Label on object 29-43-50/B-4755

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Object Number	Title	Classification	Geography/Provenience
29-43-50/B4756	Wood scepter - egg-shaped end	Staff	Africa
29-43-50/B4753	Wood scepter - horizontal hour-glass shaped end.	Staff	Africa
29-43-50/B4754	Wood scepter - square club end	Staff	Africa
29-43-50/B4761	Long wooden scepter - mallet end	Staff	Africa
17-41-50/B1576	Chief's scepter, female at one end, ivory ring at other	Staff	Congo
29-43-50/B4751	Wood scepter - flat elongated saw-tooth edged circle of one end	Unclassified	Africa
991-12-60/15067.1	Brown Agate Ju-i Scepter (Broken) with Carved Fingus Motif	Staff	China
29-43-50/B4752	Wood scepter - corrugated and spike end	Unclassified	Africa
30-65-50/H1241.1	Scepters, gourd and bamboo	Staff	Congo
18-12-30/F229	Scepter	Raw Material Staff	Maranhao
85-9-30/38328A	Scepter, stone and wood	Worked Wood	Ancient Grave
18-12-30/F227	Scepter	Staff	Brazil

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