Ring with buffalo head "nyi-kar-yi"

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Description

brass, min. dam., slight traces of corrosion, base;
the “nyi-kar-yi” was even called “ring of silence”. Members of a healing society used to hold it between the teeth, when one of them was buried.

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Comparing literature

Goldwater, Robert, Senufo Sculpture from West Africa, Greenwich 1964, ill. 139 ff.

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Publications

AHDRC: 0138075

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