Carved wooden staff with a coiled design at the top, rattle section below and a small head below that. The head is wearing a cap and has scarification marks above the eyes. The rattle section is carved with geometric designs and has three slits through which the rattle can be seen. There are some insect cases.
Carved wooden staff with a coiled design at the top, rattle section below and a small head below that. The head is wearing a cap and has scarification marks above the eyes. The rattle section is carved with geometric designs and has three slits through which the rattle can be seen.
During the collections-based phase of the Museum Affordances Project 2018, photographs of some of these rattle staffs were shared on the project Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/reentanglements/).
In a comment on 01/10/2018, Adenike Cosgrove wrote: ' This looks to be an Edo ukhurhe rattle staff. You can read more about them here: https://www.imodara.com/.../nigeria-edo-ukhurhe-rattle.../'
These staffs (Z 20317 - Z 20342) appear to have been carved by the same hand, or in the same workshop and were collected by N.W. Thomas as a group. They are listed in Thomas' 1st catalogue (Doc.413) as entries 308-335, which are situated at the very back of the catalogue.
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A selection of rattle staff collected by Northcote Thomas are shown together in Image 390447.