Bracelet of "ogboni" society · Nigeria, Yoruba · ID: 3033983
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Provenance
Galerie Schwarz-Weiß, Essen, Germany (1973)German Private Collection, Munich
Size
H: 14,5 cm
H: 5.7 inch
Description
brass, openwork design, four human faces, concentrical ornaments inbetween, attached bells, traces of corrosion, small missing parts;
worn by kings, priests and “oshogbo” officials, part of the burial offering for deceased. Nowadays they are sometimes displayed on family altars, serving as ring-shaped support for calabashs.
The object Bracelet of “ogboni” society with the object ID 3033983 was last part of the auction 71st tribal art auction at November 24, 2012 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 313.
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Comparing literature
Witte, Hans, Earth and the Ancestors: Ogboni Iconography, Amsterdam 1988, p. 167, ill. 85