House of the head "ile ori" · Nigéria, Yoruba · ID: 3033536
Description
palm fibres, leather, fabric, cowrie snails, cylindrical receptacle with fabric coating, embroidered with cowrie snails, set with four amulet bags, crown-shaped lid with four fabric triangles, slightly dam., traces of old age;
various researchers have shown that the lid of the “house of the head” is intentionally shaped like a Yoruba crown. This is a manifestation of the king’s “inner head”. His physical head is concealed by the curtain of beads hanging from the crown.
L’objet House of the head “ile ori” avec l’ID d’objet 3033536 a fait partie de l’enchère 71st tribal art auction en 24 novembre 2012 pour la dernière fois le Zemanek-Münster Hôtel des ventes et avait le numéro de lot 294.
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