Dance staff "oshe shango"

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Description

wood, matt, dark brown, partly encrusted patina, round handle with a flat platform on top, carved with a kneeling male figure with symmetrical arranged body, crowned by a massive double axe symbol, holding two staffs with doube axe motif, handwritten collection number “Y 190- 60” on the back, min. dam., missing parts through insect caused damage (base, back of the head), fine cracks, slight traces of abrasion, base

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Comparing literature

Visser, Joris, Art of the Yoruba, Brussels 2003, p. 32 Eisenhofer, Stefan (Hg.), Kulte, Künstler, Könige in Afrika, Linz 1997, p. 209, ill. III/2.7

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