Pair of ritual staffs "edan oshugbo" · Nigeria, Yoruba · ID: 3033903

Name: Pair of ritual staffs "edan oshugbo"
SKU: 3033903
Availability: Discontinued

not available anymore

Provenance

Theo A.H.M. Dobbelmann, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Size

H: 20 cm resp. 20,5 cm

H: 7.9 inch resp. 8.1 inch

Description

brass, partly encrusted patina, nearly identical kneeling figures, male/female, mounted on iron spike, min. dam., fissures, traces of corrosion, on wooden base;
“ogboni” is a secret society of the Yoruba, also called “oshugbo”. The best known “oshugbo” object is the “edan oshugbo”, a pair of bronze images male/female mounted on iron spikes, linked by an iron chain. These figures belong to individual “oshugbo” members who - after approval by an “oshugbo” official - the “apena” - take them home afer their initiation into the “oshugbo” cult. They are kept on the family shrine and they are danced on special occasions.

The object Pair of ritual staffs “edan oshugbo” with the object ID 3033903 was last part of the auction 71st tribal art auction at November 24, 2012 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 308.

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