Sceptre or dance wand "daphel" or "kebere" · Burkina Faso, Lobi/Bobo · ID: 3040926
sold
EUR 500
Provenance
Pierre Loos, Brussels, BelgiumHans Reinmöller, Ratingen, Germany (1993)
Lempertz, Brussels, 22 January 2013, lot 33
German Private Collection
Size
H: 75 cm
H: 29.5 inch
Description
wood, greyish brown patina, partly encrusted, elegant curved shape, habile handle, slightly dam., minor missing parts, cracks, traces of weathering, abrasion of paint;
such club-type sceptres were formerly often listed as Senufo axes, at which Piet Meyer had already attributed them to the Lobi in 1981. According to Mottas they seem to be of Bobo origin, where they were called “kebere” and were used in so-called “joro” ritual.
Comparing literature
Meyer, Piet, Kunst und Religion der Lobi, Zürich 1981, ill. 152 Roy, Christopher D., Land of the flying masks, München 2007, ill. 264 ff.
Publications
AHDRC: 0142126