Pair of ritual staffs "edan oshugbo" · Nigéria, Yoruba · ID: 3033903
Description
brass, partly encrusted patina, nearly identical kneeling figures, male/female, mounted on iron spike, min. dam., fissures, traces of corrosion, on wooden base;
“ogboni” is a secret society of the Yoruba, also called “oshugbo”. The best known “oshugbo” object is the “edan oshugbo”, a pair of bronze images male/female mounted on iron spikes, linked by an iron chain. These figures belong to individual “oshugbo” members who - after approval by an “oshugbo” official - the “apena” - take them home afer their initiation into the “oshugbo” cult. They are kept on the family shrine and they are danced on special occasions.
L’objet Pair of ritual staffs “edan oshugbo” avec l’ID d’objet 3033903 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 308.
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Littérature comparée
Witte, Hans, Earth and the Ancestors: Ogboni Iconography, Amsterdam 1988, p. 56 f., ill. 5