In the man's hand a wooden staff topped with a serpentine carving crackled with blue-white force.

He paused, glancing this way and that, before proceeding, picking his way with a long steel-shod staff topped with an obsidian ball.

The ritual begins with actors operating large staffs topped with carved heads, like stick puppets, representing the grandchildren (the temes nevinbur).

As a deadly symbol of state, Shaddam now held the tall staff topped with its faceted glowglobe, the same murderous prop Reffa had used during the play.

It is a two-meter-long staff topped by a three-pronged blade.

She had changed into a clean white robe with the emblems of her calling, and held a staff topped by a sigil.

The Tutti Men carry Tutti Poles: wooden staffs topped with bunches of flowers and a cloved orange.

In her temple representations, Kali holds a noose in one hand, a staff topped by a skull in another.

In one, from around 1809, he is shown standing, one hand at his waist, the other holding a staff topped by a little gold bird.

She is black, wears a garland of human heads, is clothed in a tiger skin, and wields a staff topped by a human skull.