Ashanti Linguist's Staff Depicting 2 Hunters with Lion

Two orange-faced figures lean on a big sprawled beast like it is furniture.

This linguist’s staff depicting 2 hunters with lion is Ashanti, from Ghana, West Africa, and dates to the 20th century. It is carved & painted wood. Without a written language of their own, the Ashanti handed history and sayings down by word of mouth, and the article counts over 3,600 proverbs covering nearly every human situation. Pair of figures with rust-orange skin, bright white eyes and tiny hand-held objects sit behind a heavy, rust-colored sprawled animal marked with a ribbed jaw and a dark mane. A pale grey slab supports them. It is 7 inches wide, 6 deep and 62 high.

Easygoing company for something with that much jaw.