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Ritual staff "edan oshugbo" ·  Nigeria, Yoruba · ID: 3041762

sold EUR 2,000
Provenance
Galerie Schwarz-Weiß, Essen, Germany
German Private Collection
Lempertz, Brussels, 30 March 2006, lot 115
Walter Schmidt, Würzburg/Innsbruck, Germany/Austria
Size
H: 33,5 cm
H: 13.2 inch

Description

brass, encrusted patina in some areas, mounted on sabre-shaped iron staff, seated hermaphrodite with beard and high towering headdress, bird and spoon superimposed, two pairs of crescent-shaped projections on each side, min. dam., missing parts (area of the chest), slight traces of corrosion, base


The object Ritual staff “edan oshugbo” with the object ID 3041762 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 43 achieved a sales price of EUR 2,000.

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Comparing literature

Dobbelmann, Th.A.H.M., Der Ogboni-Geheimbund, Berg en Dal 1976, ill. 72


Publications

AHDRC: 0103885


Exhibition

Yoruba, Das Überleben einer Westafrikanischen Kultur, Bamberg 2 June - 29 September 1991; Augsburg 13 October - 3 November 1991


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