staff
- Museum number
- Af1895,-.1198
- Description
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(description from Christy slip)
Dancing staff with long iron butt of circular section having incised ornament around the upper part. The staff is covered for half its length with beadwork in bands of red, white and dark blue, and at intervals with three leather disks from which depend short strings of beads, cane-sections terminating in large black beads. At the upper end is a long feather and some white hair, and just above the second disk is a collar of speckled brown and white feathers. Below the beadwork the shaft is bound with copper wire, over which is a band of beadwork in alternating narrow blue and white stripes.
- Production date
- 1895 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 228.50 centimetres
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Width: 13 centimetres
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Depth: 18 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1895
- Acquisition notes
- Af1895,-.1190 to 1208 were all given by A W Franks, and all are recorded as coming from 'Raikes'. He can be identified as (then) Captain A E H Raikes (see his biography), who was involved in the Mazrui war in June 1895. Most of the objects come from Uganda, with a few from Kenya.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1895,-.1198
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Af1895C3.1198 (old CDMS no.)