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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

Currently On View

Bibliography

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

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Akan

Akan (African people)
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Akans (African people)
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Ghanaian

Ghana
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Ghanian
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art, Ghanaian
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Gana
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Gold Coast
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lecturers

lecturer's
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speakers
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lecturer
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lecturers'
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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.]

oral histories
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history, oral
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oral historians
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communication systems
Use for mechanical and electrical systems that relay information within buildings. [March 1993 descriptor moved.]

systems, communication
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communications systems
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communication system
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systems, communications
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signal systems
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systems, signal
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goldwork

goldwork, Romanesque
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goldwork, Rococo
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goldwork, Sassanid
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goldwork, Mycenaean
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goldwork, Thracian
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goldwork, Minoan
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goldwork, Prehistoric
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goldwork, Ottonian
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goldwork, Colonial
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goldwork, Renaissance
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goldwork, Medieval
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goldwork, Gothic
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goldwork, Baroque
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gold-work
British Equivalent

goldwork, Hellenistic
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gold
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goldwork, Merovingian
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goldwork, ancient
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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.]

staff, ceremonial
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staffs, ceremonial
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ceremonial staff
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<percussive weapons>
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quarterstaffs
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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.]

aphorisms and apothegms
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proverbs
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maxims
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aphorism
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public officers
People holding posts to which they have been legally elected or appointed and exercising government functions.

public officer

public officers'

public officer's

government officials

municipal officials

officers, public

officials

officials, government

officials, municipal

officials, public

officials, state

public officials

state officials

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Eamon Ore-Giron_Gold in Medium field

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