Walking stick
This walking stick (tokotoko) is from New Zealand. It is a finely decorated and polished example of this type of object, with a small humanoid figure carved into the wood of the handle. The level of decoration and skill suggest this object belonged to a highly regarded member of the community.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 33/1953/16
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Personal objects
- Collection Area Region
- Australia and New Zealand
- Collector Excavator
- Montague, Lieutenant Colonel Leopold Agar Denys (from the collection of)
- Material
- wood
- Common Name
- walking stick
- Simple Name
- walking stick
- Production Country
- New Zealand
