Ritual staffs "edan oshugbo" · Nigeria, Yoruba · ID: 3038237

Name: Ritual staffs "edan oshugbo"
SKU: 3038237
Availability: Discontinued

not available anymore

Provenance

Theo A.H.M. Dobbelmann, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Size

H: 35 cm

H: 13.8 inch

Description

brass, iron, seated figures, male/female, mounted on iron spike, the male one holding an oblong item, the female grasping her breasts, linked to each other by a chain, min. dam., small missing parts, traces of corrosion, base;
“edan oshugbo” staffs belong to individual “oshugbo” members who - after approval by an “oshugbo” official - the “apena” - take them home afer their initiation into the “oshugbo” cult. They are kept on the family shrine and they are danced on special occasions. The “edan” might be a single staff or a pair of bronze images male/female mounted on iron spikes and linked by an iron chain.

The object Ritual staffs “edan oshugbo” with the object ID 3038237 was last part of the auction 79th Tribal Art Auction at March 21, 2015 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 330.

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