Flute playing "bla bochio" ·  Benin, Fon · ID: 3038952

Description

wood, blackish brown patina, nearly entirely sewn in cloth which is saturated with mass, wrapped with cord and cowrie shell strings and embroidered with amulet-like wooden pads, remains of fabric at the cap-like headdress, entirely coated by a thick encrusted layer of various sacrificial material, on plug-shaped base, pedestal