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Ritualist's stick, Kaguru people - Tanzania
18.5" tall
wood, glass beads

I especially love the abstract nature of the animal represented on the top of the stick.

$1200

Inventory # RT100

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"Sticks, as they are called, are shorter than staffs and were sometimes used by leaders as emblems of rank, but
mainly by ritualists to cast spells and cleanse people, houses, or ritual enclosures." - Mwana Hiti by Marc L. Felix