Art Minutes: Altar Staff (Asen)
In this Art Minutes video with Kerry Elkins, Museum Specialist at the Appleton Museum of Art, learn more about these commemorative ancestral altar staffs by the Fon peoples of the Republic of Benin.
Fon peoples
“Altar Staff (Asen)”
Early 20th century
Republic of Benin
Iron, brass, coins, 37 1/4 x 8 1/2 in.
Gift of Arthur I. Appleton
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