Bell "omo" · Nigeria, Yoruba · ID: 3035252
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Provenance
German Private Collection, Hamburg, collected in situ (1959 - 1965)Size
H: 16 cm
H: 6.3 inch
Description
brass with patina, conical corpus, decorated with a human face, elaborate decorations and facial scarification marks, crown-like headgear, clapper missing, min. dam., slight traces of corrosion;
such bells were used for ritual purposes, probably to get in contact with the ancestors.
Comparing literature
Witte, Hans, Earth and the Ancestors, Ogboni Iconography, Amsterdam 1988, p. 79, ill. 16