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.
Comparing literature
Cogdell, Jacqueline, Turn up the Volume! University of California 1999, p. 273, ill. 43