Divinité tutélaire "alusi" portant une pochette de médecine autour du cou ·  Nigéria, Igbo · ID: 3043887

Description

wood, base

In some areas the various figures were brought together annually for display on a big festival, as it is reported by H. Cole on a photo from 1966 in Oreri. On this day some of the images were repainted, while others were dressed up. Offerings of chalk and kola nut were made and libations were poured; sometimes fowls, goats, or sheep were sacrificed. A festive meal was prepared from the “chaff”, the meat of the sacrificial animals; the blood, it is said, is the food preferred by the deities themselves.

L’objet Divinité tutélaire “alusi” portant une pochette de médecine autour du cou avec l’ID d’objet 3043887 a fait partie de l’enchère 89e vente aux enchères Tribal Art en 7 juillet 2018 pour la dernière fois le Zemanek-Münster Hôtel des ventes et avait le numéro de lot 108.

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Littérature comparée

Cole, Herbert M. & Chike C. Aniakor, Igbo Arts, Los Angeles 1984, 90 ff. Cole, Herbert M., Invention and Tradition, Munich, London, New York 2012, p. 54 ff.