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Figs. 161 to 163. Bronze stafi of office, 4 feet 11 inches in length, weighing 14 Ibs. ;
it has two elongated crotals in the upper end, with long slits for the emission
loose rods of iron.
of the sound, enclosing Between the slits are vertical
bands of with raised similar to those
guilloche pattern edges, represented
on the stem and
top of the mancala board, Fig. 116, Plate XX, and a
horizontal band of with On the
guilloche pattern pellets in relief. top is
an human a curled mud-fish. The middle of the
upright hand, holding
staff is ornamented curious with
by nondescript figures alternating balls,
and the lower end has an butt ornamented on the four sides with
oblong
like that of the crotals on the end. The staff has
guilloche pattern, upper
been broken in the middle and mended in a the
by recasting clumsy way,
metal of the introduced
part being thicker than the staff itself.

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