Pair of Leggings or Anklets

Zulu people, Shembe district, Eshowe, South Africa, African

1950 - 1989

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Crouching figure, covered face
One of four staffs used to deliniate an area around a royal when he appears in public. Decorated with kneeling female figures with hands on breasts, alternated with knelling male drummers, at top birds and a python, below figures are quadrupeds, possibly goats, symbols of wealth.
Collector number EWLE 32
Janus Torso on Vessel Top, Koma culture, Ghana, Sisili/Kulpawn River Basin, Ghana, African, fired clay, slip