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

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.

The object Ring with buffalo head “nyi-kar-yi” with the object ID 3042481 was last part of the auction 86th Tribal Art Auction at May 27, 2017 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 268 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,000.

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Comparing literature

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

Publications

AHDRC: 0138075