A Yoruba Shango wand Nigeria wood with beads

A Yoruba Shango wand

Nigeria

wood with beads, the standing female with a five part lobed coiffure and a thunder axe crest with incised decoration, with a worn face, wearing a necklace and patterned costume and holding a gourd/rattle and an animal, the handle with a loop,

49cm high,

and two Yoruba Shango wands. (3)

Provenance

The Michael and Renate Lancaster collection.