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Ceremonial knife "ada ogun" ·  Nigéria, Yoruba · ID: 3041485

Vendu 2 100 €
Provenance
Anthony J. Stout, Washington D.C., USA (1962)
Roy Stacy, Washington D.C., USA (1975)

Description

bronze, brass, artfully curved blade, chased on both sides, handle in form of female head with partly open worked coiffure, traces of corrosion, acrylic base;
probably a so-called “ada ogun” or “sword of ogun”, Lord over iron and weapons, the patron of all Yoruba iron-workers. Kept by the master of the local guild of smiths, it served as an emblem of the craft group.


Littérature comparée

Fischer, Werner & Manfred A. Zirngibl, Afrikanische Waffen, Passau 1978, p. 14, ill. 4


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