Asante (Ashanti) Linguist Staff Finial, GhanaWood with gold leaf Height 11 3/4in (29.8cm) Provenance Charles D. Miller, III, St. James, New York, collected in Kumasi, Ghana in the early 1980s Published "Social Register Observer," Winter Issue 6, October 1997, p. 47 According to Dr. Martha Ehrlich (personal communication), "An Asante ruler employs a commoner as spokesman (okyeame), chosen for his intelligence and eloquence. The okyeame carries a tall staff with a gold-covered finial that illustrates an appropriate proverb. Here, a bird above a coiled snake recalls a story about the bird that borrowed money from a snake and then flew away from a debt it thought uncollectable. However, a drought reduced forest water holes to only one, at which the snake eventually caught its debtor. The image illustrates patience and perseverance."
Asante (Ashanti) Linguist Staff Finial, GhanaWood with gold leaf Height 11 3/4in (29.8cm) Provenance Charles D. Miller, III, St. James, New York, collected in Kumasi, Ghana in the early 1980s Published "Social Register Observer," Winter Issue 6, October 1997, p. 47 According to Dr. Martha Ehrlich (personal communication), "An Asante ruler employs a commoner as spokesman (okyeame), chosen for his intelligence and eloquence. The okyeame carries a tall staff with a gold-covered finial that illustrates an appropriate proverb. Here, a bird above a coiled snake recalls a story about the bird that borrowed money from a snake and then flew away from a debt it thought uncollectable. However, a drought reduced forest water holes to only one, at which the snake eventually caught its debtor. The image illustrates patience and perseverance."
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