Zemanek-Münster

Cloche "omo"

Nigéria, Yoruba
Vendu 1 900 €
Taille
H: 17,5 cm
H: 6.9 inch

Description

brass with patina, conical corpus with human face, fine worked scarification marks and coiffure, big eyelet, clapper missing, min. dam., fine cracks, slight traces of corrosion.
Such bells were used for ritual purposes, probably to get in contact with the ancestors.


Littérature comparée

Cogdell, Jacqueline, Turn up the Volume! University of California 1999, p. 273, ill. 43

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