- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Loga sticks - 5 short sticks strung on a thong with a string of beads.
- Geographical reference
- Usambara
- Person
- Field collector A.D. Woodward
- Field collector Universities' Mission to Central Africa
- PRM source Universities' Mission to Central Africa
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1920
- Date collected
- By 1920
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1920
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Plant Fibre Yarn, Material Glass, Material Bead, Process Twisted, Process Perforated, Process Strung, Process Tied
- Dimensions
- Length: max 95 mm each stick, approx
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1920.91.27
- Research and responses
Note that Herbert Willoughby Woodward [qv] was based at Magila, Zanzibar for UMCA from circa 1878 - 1921, it seems unlikely, but not impossible that there should have been another Woodward, with different initials [ie A.D. Woodward] based in the same place at about the same time [AP 17/08/2004]
Search terms: Ritual and Ceremonial, Status, Religion, Bead, Religious Object, Ceremonial Object, Amulet
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