Walking staff, resembling spear and of similar length, without blade or butt spike. Wooden shaft, top half plain, most of bottom half decorated with one set of bands of red and black tufted hair bound on with fibre, the hair bands getting longer towards the base end and finished with a set of black bristles. The top end of the shaft with a small point, the bottom end with a long point. A white paper disc loose with the staff, inscribed `4’.
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