An Igkirra staff Kabba Province

An Igkirra staff

Kabba Province, Nigeria

carved wood, with a kneeling female with her hands on her breasts and with a bird finial, with a pointed metal tip, with Liverpool Museum label,

117.5cm long.

Provenance

Arthur Holdsworth Groom, District Officer, Nigeria 1905 - 1917.

Loaned to the Castle Museum, Norwich in 1911, listed as a Witch Doctor's staff of Office.