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Ring with buffalo head "nyi-kar-yi", Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo, Size: H: 7,5 cm (H: 3.0 inch), ID: 3042481
Ring with buffalo head "nyi-kar-yi", Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo, Size: H: 7,5 cm (H: 3.0 inch), ID: 3042481 - 2/4 Ring with buffalo head "nyi-kar-yi", Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo, Size: H: 7,5 cm (H: 3.0 inch), ID: 3042481 - 3/4 Ring with buffalo head "nyi-kar-yi", Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo, Size: H: 7,5 cm (H: 3.0 inch), ID: 3042481 - 4/4
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Lot 268
86th Tribal Art Auction

Ring with buffalo head "nyi-kar-yi" ·  Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo · ID: 3042481

sold EUR 1,000
Provenance
Belgian Private Collection
Size
H: 7,5 cm
H: 3.0 inch

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.

Comparing literature

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

Publications

AHDRC: 0138075

Africa

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