Bague avec tête de buffle "nyi-kar-yi" ·  Côte d'Ivoire, Sénoufo · ID: 3042481

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