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English translation: staff gods

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French term or phrase:	bâtons-divinités
English translation:	staff gods
Entered by:	Gilla Evans

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10:56 Feb 15, 2010

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Social Sciences - Anthropology / museum exhibition in Paris

French term or phrase: bâtons-divinités

'la pensée analogique se donne souvent à voir dans des réseaux : par exemple dans des chaînes d’ancêtres (bâtons-divinités des îles Cook), dans des constellations d’esprits incarnant chacun une qualité du monde (les katsinam hopi)...'
Does anyone know the correct term for these in (UK) English?

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staff gods

Explanation:
lots in the British Museum, specific to the Cook Islands

see for instance:
http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/BucArts-fig-BucArts324a.ht...

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There's a picture of one here:

http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/ObjectDetails.aspx?oid=154...

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