Fetish stick

Maker
Unknown Maker
Description
A wooden stick with a beaded cover in a geometric pattern. The beads are white, red, green, black and yellow. The stick is sharpened at one end and flat at the other with small beaded tassels surrounding it. The top is made of a two pronged antler with light carving around the base. It has a hole drilled up through the base where it attaches to the stick.
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Maker
Media/Materials
Wooden stick, glass[?] beads, string and an antler/bone.
Production place
Lubok Antu, Sarawak, Malaysia
Collection
N.M. Roe Collection/Iban & Indonesian Collection/Ethnology
Department collection type
Ethnology
Credit line
Collection of Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato
Accession number
1972/129/34.1-2

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