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Linguist’s Staff ("Okyeame poma")

20th century
20th C.
Africa, Ghana
69-1/2 x 4 x 3 in. (176.5 x 10.1 x 7.6 cm.)

By (primary)
Artist unknown

Culture/People: Akan peoples

Medium: Wood with gold leaf

Credit Line: Given in memory of Jerome Flax by Don and Serene Flax

Accession Number: 1999.148.a-c

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Bibliography

see Jeffries, op. cit.; see also Cole and Ross, Arts of Ghana, UCLA 1977, pp. 158-164

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Akan

Ghanaian

lecturers

oral history
History in which historical information is recorded, or histories are presented, in the form of audible speech or song. [March 1996 scope note added; related term added. September 1994 related term added.]

communication systems
Use for mechanical and electrical systems that relay information within buildings. [March 1993 descriptor moved.]

goldwork

ceremonial staffs
Weapons in the form of a single, long shaft, like a quarterstaff, that serve ceremonial or ritual functions, for instance as symbols of office or public regalia. [July 1998 descriptor added.]

aphorisms
Short, pithy statements of principle or precepts, often of known authorship; distinguished from "proverbs" which are statements repeated colloquially and which often embody the folk wisdom of a group or nation. [December 1994 descriptor added.]

public officers
People holding posts to which they have been legally elected or appointed and exercising government functions.

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