Staff

Item number 1198/2 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.

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Description

Long dark brown coloured staff with large diamond-shaped piece at top and zigzag carved ring around bottom end. Diamond-shaped piece has four sides, each with their own distinct patterns of geometric designs made up of an assortment of diagonal lines, zigzags and swirled patterns that have been engraved in the wood.

Narrative

The staff was previously owned by the donor's father, Reverend Banfield, who was a missionary, mainly in West Africa, from 1901 to c. 1930. He worked for many years among the Nube people in interior Nigeria.