"Embera Shaman Stick - Choco (panama, Colombia)"
Shaman's stick (jaïbana) embera from Choco (South Panama - North Colombia) crowned with a beautiful carved hieratic female figure.First half of the 20th century. Very fine condition.
Cf. Donald Tayler. Embarkations. Ethnography and Shamanism of the Chocó Indians of Colombia, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, 1996