Bell · Nigéria, Yoruba · ID: 3034962
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Provenance
Galerie Schwarz-Weiß, Essen, Germany (1971/72)Description
brass, in openwork design, decorated with a human face, complete with clapper, min. dam., slight traces of corrosion, small missing parts,
such bells were used for ritual purposes, probably to get into contact with the ancestors.
Littérature comparée
Witte, Hans, Earth and the Ancestors: Ogboni Iconography, Amsterdam 1988, p. 157, ill. 73