Tribal Art & Antiquities - 20th September 2016
Lot 222
An Igkirra staff Kabba Province
Estimate £800 - £1,200
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Description
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.