Staff with Saint Anthony of Padua

A long, slender wooden staff with dark reddish-brown finish, banded with brass collars and tapering to a pointed iron tip. At the top, a small brass figure of a standing bearded man in a robe is set against the shaft. The plain grey background isolates the staff's full vertical length.

Artist

Kongo artist

Date

19th century

Medium

Brass, wood, iron

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

1972 × 4000 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Ernst Anspach, 1999