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.
The object Bell “omo” with the object ID 3035252 was last part of the auction 74th tribal art auction at September 7, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 278.
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Comparing literature
Witte, Hans, Earth and the Ancestors, Ogboni Iconography, Amsterdam 1988, p. 79, ill. 16