"Ankush, India, 19th"
Mahout's staff, scepter of authority for the "mahout", is an instrument used in training and allows the elephant to be steered. Also it is frequently found as an attribute of Ganesh. Chiseling of the metal representing a tiger on one side and a character overlapping another (hanuman?) On the other. At the end of the handle an animal sculpture. 
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