Black wooden staff with carved motifs in bas-relief and flat designs. The upper part is rounded and the lower part is triangular prism-shaped. The end of the lower part is rough, suggesting a broken part.
Some part of the motifs are broken.
Catalogue card reads, in black ink: "39.174 | Benin | Portion of ceremonial wooden staff. / d.d. W.W. Collins."
Red circular sticker on bottom right of card.
Given the uncertainty of the place of collection, Ghana and Benin City have been added to the place field with queries, as have Edo and Asante in the cultural group field
Mrs Francis Collins married in 1896, a year before the Benin Expedition and there is no record of her being married before. The majority of the objects, initially accessioned as coming from Benin City, have been later identified as Asante.
It is likely, therefore, that Captain Jackson served in one of the Expeditionry Forces of the Anglo-Ashanti wars.
Donated by William Wiehé Collins, an English landscape painter.
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Noted by the donor William Wiehé Collins, as belonging to the wife of his late brother, Mr Francis Collins, which had been collected by her first husband, who had served in the Benin Expedition