Bague avec tête de buffle "nyi-kar-yi"
Côte d'Ivoire, Sénoufo
Vendu
1 000 €
Provenance
Belgian Private CollectionTaille
H: 7,5 cm
H: 3.0 inch
Description
brass, min. dam., slight traces of corrosion, base;
the “nyi-kar-yi” was even called “ring of silence”. Members of a healing society used to hold it between the teeth, when one of them was buried.
Littérature comparée
Goldwater, Robert, Senufo Sculpture from West Africa, Greenwich 1964, ill. 139 ff.Publications
AHDRC: 0138075