The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 29, 2025
Scepter
late 1800s or early 1900s
Overall: 57.5 x 4.5 x 5.5 cm (22 5/8 x 1 3/4 x 2 3/16 in.)
Gift of Dr. Anita J. Glaze 2015.155
Location: not on view
Description
Staffs and scepters as well as tobacco pipes and mortars are among the most important sculptural creations to stem from the Ovimbundu peoples, a Central African culture. All of these object types have associations with ideas of class, status, and power. This scepter has a handle wrapped in thin copper wire that forms wide bands of alternating metal and wooden passages. Its finial is a human head whose carved headdress or hairstyle is ornamented with round-headed metal tacks.- 1969 or 1970–2015Anita Glaze2015–The Cleveland Museum of Art by gift
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2015.155