Zemanek-Münster

Bell "omo" ·  Nigeria, Yoruba, Ekiti · ID: 3035640

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Size
H: 15 cm
H: 5.9 inch

Description

brass and iron with patina, four-sided, decorated with anthropomorphic facial features, loop-like handle, complete with clapper, min. dam., small missing parts, slight traces of corrosion


The object Bell “omo” with the object ID 3035640 was last part of the auction 74th tribal art auction at September 7, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 279.

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Comparing literature

Witte, Hans, Earth and the Ancestors, Ogboni Iconography, Amsterdam 1988, p. 155


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