A Zulu / Tsonga staff South Africa wood

A Zulu / Tsonga staff

South Africa

wood, with a carved female figure, with knop finial, she wears a triangular cape, back skirt and a loin cloth and with bent boneless arms resting under her breasts, on a tapering shaft, poker work highlights,

99cm long, on a stand. (2)

cf Ladislav Holy, Masks and Figures from Eastern and Southern Africa, figure 133, for similar boneless arms.