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Bracelet ·  Nigéria · ID: 3033268

Vendu 300 €
Provenance
Helmut Zake, Heidelberg, Germany
Harald & Ursula Suhr, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada / Germany (1982)

Description

ivory, slightly shiny patina, of oval form, min. dam., cracks because of old age;
the origin of such bare bracelets without decor can hardly be determined. Among the Baule for example, it was a sign of wealth for a man to be able to offer such a bracelet to his “senior wife” when he married a second woman.


Littérature comparée

Ginzberg, Marc, Afrikanische Formen, Mailand 2001, p. 219


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