Object Listing

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

Staff with a flattened drop-shape finial. It has a small projecting collar just below the finial.

Walking stick with round bulb finial completely sheathed in bead work with diamond shaped designs

Staff with a flattened circular finial off-set from the top of the shaft. It has inlaid geometric lead designs on the flat sides, and a band of three rows of raised amasumpa designs around the curved rim section as well as a projecting pod-like form made of horn. At the top of the curved rim section, with amasumpa designs on either side, is a hole.

Staff with a spherical finial with two shallow hemispherical concave indentations in its bottom and top surface. Around the outer edge of the sphere are short projecting cylinders (a few are broken off). The shaft is bifurcated at the top and joins together into a single shaft in the bottom 1/4 of its length

Staff with male head finial with headring. Its eyes are inlays of metal

Staff with standing male figure as finial. Figure has a beard and a mustache with eyes made from white seed beads. He is standing arms akimbo - ends resting on hip region. Feet appear to have broken off and there are no hands carved.

Staff with standing female figure as finial. She has a pronounced curve of the back resulting in the belly being projected otwards. Her arms follw this curve and are ridges carved at the sides. She wears a small rectangular front pubic covering, her legs are columnar and bulge out at the calves and she has no feet - legs runs straight into the top of the shaft.

Staff that has a simian figure clinging to the top as a finial. Halfway between this figure and the next is a spherical bulge in the shaft with two horizontal grooved lines encircling it. Below this in the lower 2/3rds of the shaft are three animal figures (probably dogs) carved so that they appear to be running up the shaft towards the finial.

Staff with more than 2/3rds of its length carved in the shape of an elongated female figure.She is very compact with arms and legs all within the profile of the shaft and held close together and arms at the sides. She has an inlaid metal necklace with downward poining triangles.

Abstracted and geometric human figure as finial. Round head, inverted, truncated cone for shoulders, torso elongated upside down cone, space between legs and between torso and arms. Whole figure is flattened front to back. There are no feet and the legs run straight into the staff which has a coiled shape around its shaft. The bottom of the shaft appears to have broken off. Figure has some faint decorative lines.

Staff with standing woman as finial. She has a conical hairstyle and wears a skirt. The figure has slender arms held tightly to her sides. She has no feet and her lower legs end in the top of the staff shaft.

Staff with standing male figure as finial. His arms are held slightly away from his sides and bent at the elbow. The forearms and hands have broken off. A few strings of beads encircle the upper arms. The figure flares slightly outwards from the hip region into trunk-like legs that end in feet with tiny toes. The feet stand directly on the top of the shaft.

Leaf shaped spoon bowl on long pointed handle with curved ridges coiling around it. It has linear and flower motifs picked out in white dots against the dark surface of the wood.

Staff with onion-shaped finial. Just below halfway down the shaft is a band of wire decoration.

Staff with spherical finial. Approximately halfway down the shaft is a female figure. She stands with her back against the shaft and her arms held straight and back against this surface as well. The shape of her breasts have been abstracted so as to form a volume that continues curving backwards to become the shoulders and arms.

Staff with male head finial with headring. Its eyes are inlays of white seed beads

Staff with male head finial with headring. Its eyes are inlays of metal

Staff with male head as finial. It has blue seed beads as eyes. 1/5th of the way down the shaft are two polygonal spheres one on top of the other.

Staff with round finial. 1/4 of the way down the shaft is a male figure with his back against and part of the shaft. His arms are bent and the forearms are held forward as if it hold the sides of the belly. One lower arm has broken off. Approximately another 1/4 of the way down are two figures also carved with their backs against the shaft. Both have bent elbows. The second figure has its arms held behind against the shaft and the lowest figure has them held so as to touch the sides of the belly.