Arts and Crafts of the Cook Islands
Figure 198.—Smaller staff god (Oldman coll., 424): total length 45 inches, a, upper head end (1), 17.6 inches, part of middle section (2), wrapped in three layers of tapa, white, brown, and outer with black painted zigzag design: binding of sennit wound spirally in three crossing courses, b, lower section (3), 11.75 inches; with part of middle section (2); total length of middle section, 21.6 inches
Figure 198.—Smaller staff god (Oldman coll., 424): total length 45 inches, a, upper head end (1), 17.6 inches, part of middle section (2), wrapped in three layers of tapa, white, brown, and outer with black painted zigzag design: binding of sennit wound spirally in three crossing courses, b, lower section (3), 11.75 inches; with part of middle section (2); total length of middle section, 21.6 inches.