Fetish object · Benin, Fon · ID: 3037552
sold
EUR 700
Size
H: 34 cm
H: 13.4 inch
Description
post-shaped wooden corpus, animal skull, two bunches of twigs and three iron Voodoo symbols attached by cloth and cord, the whole object coated with thick encrusted sacrificial matters, traces of indigo blue pigment, slightly dam., missing parts through insect caused damage (top)
The object Fetish object with the object ID 3037552 was last part of the auction 78th tribal art auction at October 18, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 278 achieved a sales price of EUR 700.
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