Zemanek-Münster

Rattle

D. R. Congo, Luba
sold EUR 600
Provenance
Wolfgang Nerlich, Munich, Germany
Size
H: 26 cm
H: 10.2 inch

Description

wood, pumpkin, janus half figure, animal horn filled with mass in the parting, mounted on a spherical calabash, wrapped with plant fibre cord with various paraphernalia attached (scale of tortoiseshell and a pangolin, snake skin, bones, teeth etc.), slightly dam., cracks, ring-shaped socle;
such rattles are used by diviners.


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