Pendant in form of a snake · Burkina Faso, Gan · ID: 3042059
sold
EUR 500
Provenance
Pierre Dartevelle, Brussels, BelgiumSize
L: 23 cm
L: 9.1 inch
Description
brass, slight traces of corrosion, base;
probably depicting “bitis”, the sneaky viper. Women who had to work in the fields wore the very thin and beautifully forged iron snakes along the length of the calves to prevent snakebites.
The object Pendant in form of a snake with the object ID 3042059 was last part of the auction 85th Tribal Art Auction at March 4, 2017 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 141 achieved a sales price of EUR 500.
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Comparing literature
Durieu, Maine, Bronzes Gan, Paris 2005, p. 49