Short carved wooden staff with standing figure at the top, holding an axe or hatchet. The figure is wearing a cap, has scarification marks on face and body, holds an axe in one hand and a broken implement in the other. It is not clear what was held in the left hand, but it appears to have had a shaft handle and have been held at an angle to the body. The figure stands on a base with lines incised around the outside.
Short carved wooden staff with standing figure at the top, holding an axe or hatchet. The figure is wearing a cap, has scarification marks on face and body, holds an axe in one hand and a broken implement in the other.
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.