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View full screenRattle staff (ukhurhe), of carved agaba wood, one of a pair, surmounted with a carved human head, partly hollowed below with three vertical slots and a wooden rattle inside, commissioned after the death of a man to represent his spirit, social status and lineage: West Africa, Nigeria, Edo State, Benin, 19th century
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Uhi, Edo State, Nigeria, Western Africa
19th century
Benin
Carved agba wood surmounted with a carved human head, partly hollowed below with three vertical slots and decorated with a pattern of straight and wavy lines, below are two mouldings, inside is a rattling bar of wood.
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