Skull fetish "glo" ·  Benin, Fon · ID: 3037723

Description

massive wooden bowl with handles in shape of human figures (male/female), a human skull inserted and the bowl filled with magical mass, the whole object coated with thick encrusted sacrificial patina, sacrificial traces, feathers, slightly dam., cracks;
“glo” are sacred objects which should protect humans against witchcraft and sorcery from other people.

The object Skull fetish “glo” with the object ID 3037723 was last part of the auction 78th tribal art auction at October 18, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 280 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,500.

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Comparing literature

Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl (Hg.), Skulpturen und Objekte aus der Region des Königreiches Dahomey, Marl 2008, p. 53, ill. 45