Pendant in form of a snake ·  Burkina Faso, Gan · ID: 3042059

Description

brass, slight traces of corrosion, base;
probably depicting “bitis”, the sneaky viper. Women who had to work in the fields wore the very thin and beautifully forged iron snakes along the length of the calves to prevent snakebites.

Littérature comparée

Durieu, Maine, Bronzes Gan, Paris 2005, p. 49