Wooden stick with brass tip, ceremonial?

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Object Number 65-46-50/10835

Display Title Wooden stick with brass tip, ceremonial?

Descriptions

Inventory Description Carved wooden stick, brass covering at 1 end, cracked.

Classification

Tools

Department Ethnographic

Culture

Ovimbundu

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

Africa / Angola

Additional Geographic Terms West Africa: Angloa; Chileso

Materials Wood, Metal

Dimensions Overall: 88 x 2 x 1 cm (34 5/8 x 13/16 x 3/8 in.)

Quantity 1

Label on object 65-46-50/10835

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65-46-50/10837	Wooden stick, band of metal around one end, nail 8" from end - ceremonial	Tools	Angola
65-46-50/10838	Wooden stick, 35" long, nail 6" from tip of stick, ceremonial?	Staff	Angola
65-46-50/10836	Wooden stick with 3 bands of metal around it, ceremonial?	Tools	Angola
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2003.1.613	Wooden implement, wood stick handle, wrapped metal tip, angled top.	Tools
29-43-50/B4759	Wooden walking stick - brass and iron wire decoration	Staff	Africa
61-7-30/8228	Body scratching stick - ceremonial	Tools	Baixao Preto Ponto
35-31-50/1290C	Wooden stick with brass wire ring on end	Raw Material Ornament	Cameroon
61-7-30/8272	2 wooden sticks pointed at one end - ceremonial	Raw Material Ornament	Ponto Baixao Preto
971-2-50/11632	Wooden stick, no tip, but there is hole for tip, 38 in. l.	Stick	Africa
2003.1.2074	Tool, unclassified, carved wooden peg, tapered ends, brass ring at middle	Tools	Cameroon
2003.1.1078	Wooden stick, small fork at 1 end, stripped of bark, cracked	Tools	Africa

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