Dance rattle ·  Nigéria, Yoruba · ID: 3036833

Description

brass with patina, consisting of four hollow, partly open worked crescents with rattles, decorated with faces of “eshu” and eight knob-shaped appendages, min. dam., small missing parts, slight traces of corrosion, base;
such rattles, often called anklets, are used for enthronement and funerals of kings and chiefs. They are often made in pairs.

Littérature comparée

Witte, Hans, Earth and the Ancestors, Ogboni Iconography, Amsterdam 1988, p. 160