Bell "omo" · Nigeria, Yoruba · ID: 3043664
sold
EUR 1,100
Provenance
French Private CollectionSize
H: 19 cm
H: 7.5 inch
Description
brass, with clapper, patina, min. dam.
Such bells were used for ritual purposes, probably to get into contact with the ancestors. In pre-colonial times the “ogboni” society had not only religious, but political and jurisdictional functions as well. With the founding of the “Reformed Ogboni Fraternity " in 1914 the old rites of the “ogboni” society lost their meaning.
Publications
AHDRC: 0150565