Imagine this Juju Stick in the hands of a West African tribal spiritualist, its power venerated by chanting voodoo devotees. Spirits of living things dwell in the stick, imbibing it with a magical aura. If you become its proprietor, be careful. With its all-seeing eye and tongue of sharp thorns, this Juju Stick has an air of dark magic.
A voodoo practitioner would select fetishes, to give the juju object attributes like protection or power. This Juju Stick was crafted from the head of a monkey, the tongue of a giraffe and part of the horns of an impala.
According the museum label it was collected on a 1927 expedition to British West Africa, by Dr. H. E. Cole and became part of anthropology collection at the Cambridge Museum of Natural History.