staff (ritual & belief: religious buildings & furnishings)

Long wooden staff with incised decoration that has been infilled with lime. This object may be a piece of tourist art. It is cut from a plank of hardwood and has been jigsawed. It bears a representation of a horned humanoid figure that appears to be Satan.

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