Dance staff "oshe shango" ·  Nigeria, Yoruba, Gbongan · ID: 3039148

Description

wood, matt, dark brown, partly encrusted patina, round handle with a flat platform on top, carved with a kneeling male figure with symmetrical arranged body, crowned by a massive double axe symbol, holding two staffs with doube axe motif, handwritten collection number “Y 190- 60” on the back, min. dam., missing parts through insect caused damage (base, back of the head), fine cracks, slight traces of abrasion, base

Littérature comparée

Visser, Joris, Art of the Yoruba, Brussels 2003, p. 32 Eisenhofer, Stefan (Hg.), Kulte, Künstler, Könige in Afrika, Linz 1997, p. 209, ill. III/2.7