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

The object Flute playing “bla bochio” with the object ID 3038952 was last part of the auction 80th Tribal Art Auction at June 27, 2015 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 314 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,000.

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