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Antique African Wood Carved Figural Staff Top: Ivory Coast, female clutching pendulous breasts perched atop the shaft. On gallery base, 23 1/4".

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AFRICAN WOOD CARVING: Baule Staff Top, 12" tall. Weathered. Provenance: From the Estate of Thomas Cavanaugh of Maine and Florida.

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A Mossi Bronze Parade Staff Ex Rosen Collection: A cast bronze ritual staff featuring a bird like form, hornbill beak and a seated ancestor on top. This Staff includes a custom metal wall mount for display. The staff measures 15.25 x 5.25 x 1 inch.

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Miniature 20th C. African Guinea Loma Wood Nyangbai: West Africa, Guinea / Liberia, Loma (also Looma, Lorma, Loghoma, or Toma) peoples, ca. early 20th century CE. A wonderfully abstract wooden, textile, and hide figural element from the top of a staff,

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A Songye Prestige Staff Ex Danenberg Collection.: A tall carved wooden staff with reddish mineral pigment and a janus mask face as a central motif as well as a classic power figure on top of the staff with incised designs on top finial. Songye people

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A LARGE MANGBETU TERRACOTTA CLAY VESSEL WITH ANCESTOR: A very handsome terracotta clay vessel featuring a wonderful chief sculpture on top holing a staff and sword. Mangbetu peoples, Congo, Africa. The vessel measures 27.5 x 11 inches wide ( 24 inches aro

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A Luba Prestige Staff, African Art: A carved wooden staff with a female ancestor as a top finial and well handled surface. Luba peoples, DRC/ Congo, Central Africa. The staff has been custom mounted to a display stand and measures 29 in

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Antique Nyamwezi Prestige Staff Field Collected 1980s: A very finely carved wooden prestige staff with a wonderful stylized twisted form with elegant feline effigy on top. Nyamwezi peoples, Tanzania, Africa. The Staff itself measures 22 inches tall. A met

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A Hemba Janiform Staff: A carved wooden hand held staff or scepter with janus Male and female ancestor faces on top, well handled surface and overall classic form. Hemba peoples, DRC/ Congo, Africa. The staff measures 14 inc

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Staff top. Luba people. D.R. Congo. Wood. H: 12". Shipping costs noted below are estimates for USA locations via FEDEX ground. Actual costs may vary.

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Name: Staff Top
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