Iron necklace "amma talu" or "nommo koro" with stone bead · Mali, Dogon · ID: 3035856
Vendu
200 €
Provenance
Günter Zink, Speyer, GermanyHeinz Kolerski, Fellbach near Stuttgart, Germany
Description
longish links, greyish black cylindrical stone bead, regular formed and drilled in whole length, traces of corrosion (chain links);
pendants of polished stones were called “dugo”. They were looked upon as “signs of alliance” between the wearer and a spiritual power.
Littérature comparée
Ezra, Kate, Art of the Dogon, New York 1988, p. 104 f.