Staff with a Figure Representing the Deity Eshu

after 1959

Not on view

Medium: Wood, hide, glass beads, fiber, metal coins, and cowrie shells
Dimensions: 15 1/2 × 3 3/4 × 3 1/2 in. (39.4 × 9.5 × 8.9 cm)
mounted: 16 1/2 × 4 × 4 in. (41.9 × 10.2 × 10.2 cm)
Credit Line: Charles B. Benenson, B.A. 1933, Collection
Accession Number: 2006.51.92
Geography: Guinea Coast, Nigeria, or Guinea Coast, Republic of Benin
Culture: Yorùbá
Period: 19th–20th century
Classification: Tools and Equipment
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Provenance

Possibly Anuschka & Harvey Menist, Haarlem, Holland, to Oct. 12, 1984. Charles B. Benenson Collection, Greenwich, Conn;Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

Frederick John Lamp, Amanda Maples, and Laura M. Smalligan, Accumulating Histories: African Art from the Charles B. Benenson Collection at the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2012), 124, ill

"Acquisitions, July 1, 2005–June 30, 2006," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2006), 222

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Additional information

Object/Work type

staffs (walking sticks)

Subject

figures (representations)

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