Zemanek-Münster

Sceptre "ipawo ase"

Nigeria, Yoruba
sold EUR 450
Provenance
German Private Collection, Hamburg, collected in situ (1959 - 1965)
Size
H: 35 cm
H: 13.8 inch

Description

brass, dark patina, fork-shaped ending and surmounting human face framed by small eyelets, where originally small bells were attached, clapper missing, min. dam., slight traces of corrosion


Comparing literature

Witte, Hans, Earth and the Ancestors, Ogboni Iconography, Amsterdam 1988, p. 154 f.

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