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Object Number
2006.32.17
Display Title
Heavy iron staff
Descriptions
Object Description
Heavy iron staff with five branches with bells.
Inventory Description
Staff, tapered one end, six bells attached on hooks near other end, one loose
Classification
- Special
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Dogon
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
/
Mali
Materials
Iron
Dimensions
Overall: 137 x 15 x 7 cm (53 15/16 x 5 7/8 x 2 3/4 in.)
Quantity
3
Credit Line
Gift of Harvard University Art Museums
Provenance
Collector
Benjamin Hertzberg
(6/2/1999)
Collector
Lilian Hertzberg
(6/2/1999)
Dealer
Philippe Leloup
(6/2/1999)
Dealer
Helene Leloup
(6/2/1999)
Donor
Harvard University Art Museums
(10/11/06)
Seller
Helene Leloup
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 60-55-50/10431 | Iron staff with hanging bells |
Staff
|
Mali
| |
| 60-55-50/10430 | Iron staff with hanging bells |
Staff
|
Mali
| |
| 994-2-10/71097A | Dancer's Bells |
Special
|
United States
| |
|
| 994-2-10/71097B | Dancer's Bells |
Special
|
United States
| |
| 34-91-50/554 | Necklace of strip of cowhide with iron bells |
Necklace
|
Kaimosi
| |
| 17-55-70/D1041 | Necklace with "sewing help" pendant |
Necklace
|
Mindanao
| |
| 34-91-50/558 | Necklace of cowhide strip with iron bells |
Necklace
|
Kaimosi
| |
| 30-32-50/B4540 | Necklace of copper and brass beads (and five iron bells) |
Necklace
|
Madehani
| |
| 34-91-50/556 | Necklace of strip of cowhide with iron bells |
Necklace
|
Kaimosi
| |
| 34-91-50/555 | Necklace of strip of cowhide with iron bells |
Necklace
|
Kaimosi
| |
| 24-24-50/B3991 | Iron lance point, or shoe of staff |
Tool
Raw Material |
Abkah
| |
| 82-45-10/27487 | Wand; used in Sun Dance |
Staff
|
Nebraska
|