Bell · Nigeria, Yoruba · ID: 3034962
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Provenance
Galerie Schwarz-Weiß, Essen, Germany (1971/72)Size
H: 27,5 cm
H: 10.8 inch
Description
brass, in openwork design, decorated with a human face, complete with clapper, min. dam., slight traces of corrosion, small missing parts,
such bells were used for ritual purposes, probably to get into contact with the ancestors.
The object Bell with the object ID 3034962 was last part of the auction 73rd tribal art auction at May 25, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 290.
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Comparing literature
Witte, Hans, Earth and the Ancestors: Ogboni Iconography, Amsterdam 1988, p. 157, ill. 73