Skull fetish "glo"

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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.

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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

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