Object Listing

Staff with standing figure as finial. His arms are held down and bent at the elbows so that the hands rest flat on the belly area. There are no feet and the legs have a pronounced gap between then. The figure stands directly on the top of the shaft. It has very large round flat ears

Anthropomorphic abstracted angled head as finial. Head wears hood-like covering with a flared top. The shaft is slightly curved at the top and unembellished except for a section that is raised from the rest of the shaft and flat in front- it bulges out behind in a flat hemisphere (possibly indicating buttocks) and continues down the shaft past midway where it narrows to become the shaft once again.

Staff with standing abstracted human figure as finial. Only head. Torso and arms are present - the rest of the body becomes the shaft. Face is concave ovoid with white seed beads as eyes. The shaft is embellished down approximately a quarter of its length with engraved lines in criss-cross diamond pattern with horizontal lines inbetween.

Staff with simian head as finial and a seated simian projecting out approximately halfway down the staff and facing at 45 degrees to the head on top. It sits on a small platform with folded up legs and hands on ground in front.

Staff with hollow circular finial and two leaping animals up its side.

Staff with standing baboon as its finial. Baboon stands on an elongated ovoid base that is at the top of the shaft.

Staff with a human head with a small figure at the back holding onto the top of the head with its feet standing on 'shoulders'. Body of figure is an abstracted shape that appears to be two 'legs' only with small 'feet' from which the single shaft of the staff emerges. The 'legs' have a long opening between them that is wider at the top and narrows to a sharp 'V'.

Shaft with two 'janus-heads' facing away from each other as finial. They wear a single shared headring and have truncated cones projecting from their mouths. The shaft is embellished with two bands of twisted, grooves linear designs around its shaft in the upper half.

Staff with pointed arrow-like shape at one end and an anthropomorphic form at the finial. Except for a small point at the end and the figure at the top, the staff is covered in beadwork with geometric designs. The figure wears a neckring and a beaded collar.

Shaft with male head smoking pipe as finial. The shaft is embellished with 3 bands of twisted, grooved linear designs around its shaft in the upper half.

Shaft with human head as finial.

Staff with a round finial and a series of complex designs caved along its sides and shaft

Staff with a tortoise as finial. Below the finial is a reptile clinging to the shaft and front the base to just below the reptile are two snakes coiling up the shaft.

Staff with round finial and three coiling snakes twisting up shaft .

Shaft with hollow figure of 8 as its finial topped with two truncated cones/ Just below the finial are a series of small conical bumps projecting from the shaft.

Staff with an ovoid finial with truncated ends. It has four small feet on one side of the finial. There are two raised panel of amasumpa/bumps - one smaller that the other wrapped around the finial. Half of the upper section of the shaft has a twisted design

Staff with snuff box finial. Snuff box connected to the top of the shaft with two' links' - the snuff box has a ovoid hollow end which threads through a similar one at the end of the staff - as in a chain link.

Staff with three 'chain' links at the end carved in wood. Top of staff flares slightly narrowing to two raised ridges that encircle the shaft. A narrow metal band encircles the shaft above this. The shaft then bulges out for a short distance ending in two projecting flat circular horizontal rings. Between the two raised areas the shaft has two abstracted heads outlined at the widest part of the bulg and the words 'CHEF, MAHOUNDI' engraved vertically between these two motifs.

Staff with ovoid bowl at one end. Staff angles down nead bowl end to attach to the bowl which has 4 small cylindrical feet at each corner that narrow towards their base. There are two 'leaf' shapes engraved into the sides of the bowl and a projecting arch shape at its end. There is a piece missing from the rim of the bowl.

Walking stick with curved finial sheathed completely in beaded bands of colour with geometric designs in each band. End carved handle has a small bunch if beaded threads tied together

Staff with a flat ovoid finial. It passes through a flat oval bowl with a round raised foot.

Staff with a finial with a figure of 8 around the central shaft. The upper and lower ends of the finial has two projections as if extensions of the 8 shape.

Staff with abstracted human head as finial with very large flaring headgear. Headgear is a flat and 'boomerang-shaped' crurving backwards. It has two nicks in it - one at the base and one at the top back corners. It has inward facing triangles around it vertical and top horizontal edges.

Staff with a broad flat finial that curves backwards. The inner edge has a serrated edge and a rectangular block at its base.

Staff with flat banana-shaped finial vertical and with serrations along its inner curve. It has a small flat rectangular projection near the base of this shape.

Staff with a hemispherical finial - flat section at the top. It has two hemispherical concave indentations in this finial - one in the top and one in the bottom surface.

Staff with a spherical finial and another approximately 1/3 of the way down the shaft - each have hemispherical concave indentations - one in the top and one in the bottom surface.

Staff with a spherical finial and another sphere just below it approximately 1/3 of the way down the shaft and both jutting out with grooved horizontal lines between them. The top sphere has a shallow hemispherical concave indentation in its bottom surface.

Staff with flat ovoid finial