The Zigua are found in Tanzania, their primary religion is Islam. They are part of the Bantu, East-Coastal people cluster found in the Sub-Saharan African affinity bloc. Often the staffs represented the hierarchy among the chiefs of the tribe, who might carry a staff to show their rank as distinguished elders. The Zigua made staffs with semi-abstract details like snakes and horns, staffs of this kind underlined the importance of these animals as symbols of wealth, fertility and a form of communication with the royal and other ancestors. This is a well-sculpted Zigua staff carved in a coiled snake shape pattern. It has a human face decoration with eyes shade with white kaolin, bent handle at the top carved in a snakehead shape has a shiny brown patina and shows signs of age and good usage.
- Material: Hard Wood
- Condition: Good
- Age:approx 50-60yrs
- Origin: Tanzania
- SKU: LMCL-049
- Weight: 0.7 kg
- Dimensions: 3 x 108 x 3 cm