Magnifique bâton de danse ancien "oshe shango" · Nigéria, Yoruba · ID: 3041750
Walter Schmidt, Würzburg/Innsbruck, Germany/Austria
Description
wood, strongly encrusted blackish brown patina, miniature glass beads, crowned by a kneeling female figure with double axe symbol, carved with neck rings, bracelets and sash across the chest, unusual: surface structure of the coiffure reminding of a fir cone, sacrificial traces, dam., insect caused missing parts backside (above all at the double axe), handle replaced in most parts, plate;
“shango” staffs are held during processions and dances in honour of the thunder god. When not in use they are kept in large wooden or calabash bowls in the deity’s shrines, together with the thunderstones “shango” supposedly flings down from the sky.
L’objet Magnifique bâton de danse ancien “oshe shango” avec l’ID d’objet 3041750 a fait partie de la dernière vente aux enchères 86e vente aux enchères Tribal Art dans 27 mai 2017 le Zemanek-Münster Hôtel des ventes. L’objet portant le numéro de lot 41 a atteint un prix de vente de 2 200 €.
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Publications
Schädler, Karl-Ferdinand, Afrikanische Kunst in Deutschen Privatsammlungen, München 1973, p. 166, ill. 222; Schädler, Karl-Ferdinand, Afrikanische Kunst, München 1975, p. 117. Fig. 164
AHDRC: 0104681