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Iron necklace "amma talu" or "nommo koro" with stone bead ·  Mali, Dogon · ID: 3035856

Vendu 200 €
Provenance
Günter Zink, Speyer, Germany
Heinz 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.


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