Dance rattle · Nigeria, Yoruba · ID: 3036833
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Provenance
Lemaire, Amsterdam, The NetherlandsSize
H: 19,5 cm
B: 20,5 cm
H: 7.7 inch
B: 8.1 inch
Description
brass with patina, consisting of four hollow, partly open worked crescents with rattles, decorated with faces of “eshu” and eight knob-shaped appendages, min. dam., small missing parts, slight traces of corrosion, base;
such rattles, often called anklets, are used for enthronement and funerals of kings and chiefs. They are often made in pairs.
The object Dance rattle with the object ID 3036833 was last part of the auction 77th tribal art auction at June 28, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 393.
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Comparing literature
Witte, Hans, Earth and the Ancestors, Ogboni Iconography, Amsterdam 1988, p. 160