Zemanek-Münster

Ceremonial staff "rekade"

Benin, Fon
sold EUR 650
Provenance
collected in Abomey (1983)
German Private Collection
Size
L: 49 cm
L: 19.3 inch

Description

wood, dark bropwn patina, metal sheet, artificially pierced and chased blade growing out of a stylized dog’s head, small vessel with attached metal amulet in the area of the neck, rep. (breakage), cracks, slight traces of abrasion, base


Comparing literature

Musée du Quai Branly (ed.), Artistes d' Abomey, Paris 2009, p. 146, ill. 5

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