Kneeling female figure "onile" ·  Nigéria, Yoruba · ID: 3039578

Description

brass, both hands showing the “ogboni” gesture, handwritten collection number “173” at the bottom, traces of corrosion, small missing parts;
“onile” figures may appear in pairs. They are called “owner of the house” resp. “father and mother, owner of the house”. “House” means the building in which the members of the “ogboni” society stay and were these figures are kept.

Littérature comparée

Dobbelmann, Th.A.H.M., Der Ogboni-Geheimbund, Berg en Dal 1976, ill. 95