Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)
4. Information Forms (hierarchy name)
5. information forms (objects)
6. information artifacts
7. [information artifacts by function]
8. identifying artifacts
9. symbols of office

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Visual and Verbal Communication
4. Information Forms
5. information forms
6. information artifacts
7. information artifacts by function
8. identifying artifacts
9. symbols of office
10. scepters

Anotations

Scope note:

Iron and bronze staffs or scepters of uncertain origin and age, possibly made by the Soninke, Fulani or Fula people. They have been found in Guinea-Bissau and Sierra Leone. They date possibly to the 17th century.