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Staff

Chokwe, 1900-1916

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Chokwe

Staff

Chokwe, 1900-1916

Physical Qualities Wood, 30.5 H x 4.7 W x 6 D cm.
Credit Line Gift of Betsey and Stanley Heuisler, Baltimore
Object Number 2001.427
Staff with Head of a Young Girl with elongated v-shaped coiffure, two crescent-shaped scars on each cheek; two double lines around neck and two double lines around upper shaft alternating with circular designs.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2001; collected by John C. Wengatz, Methodist missionary in the Chokwe area for 27 years, who gave it to Harold Paul Sloan in 1918, grandfather of the donor, Betsey Heuisler.

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2000–2000

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