Three rattles and armlet ·  Nigeria, Yoruba · ID: 3034699

Description

metal, a) rattle with four bells, decorated with anthropomorphic faces, missing parts, d: 14 cm, old age patina; b) rattle with four bells, partly in openwork design, d: 13,5 cm, rep.; c) ring-shaped rattle with five bells, decorated with symbolic emblems and human faces, dam., missing parts; d) armlet, d: 8,5 cm, b: 8,5 cm, corpus in lattice design, four bands with concentrical circle motifs, eyelets with attached bells (most of them missing)

The object Three rattles and armlet with the object ID 3034699 was last part of the auction 73rd tribal art auction at May 25, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 295 achieved a sales price of EUR 450.

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