Bell "omo" · Nigeria, Yoruba · ID: 3042705
sold
EUR 1,900
Size
H: 17,5 cm
H: 6.9 inch
Description
brass with patina, conical corpus with human face, fine worked scarification marks and coiffure, big eyelet, clapper missing, min. dam., fine cracks, 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 3042705 was last part of the auction 87th Tribal Art Auction at November 11, 2017 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 316 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,900.
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Comparing literature
Cogdell, Jacqueline, Turn up the Volume! University of California 1999, p. 273, ill. 43