A Tsonga / Zulu staff Mozambique / South Africa carved a female figure finial with a cone shape...

A Tsonga / Zulu staff

Mozambique / South Africa

carved a female figure finial with a cone shape coiffure and with her hands placed at the base of her slightly swollen abdomen, and wearing a short skirt, on a shaft, with blackened highlights,

112.5cm long.

The cone like coiffure was a traditional Zulu form in the 19th century for married Zulu women and the slightly swollen abdomen suggests the early stages of pregnancy.