Porteuse de coupe "arugba shango" · Nigéria, Yoruba · ID: 3048380
Zemanek-Münster, 22 March 2014, Lot 479
Bettina Rübesam, Munich, Germany
Description
wood, colour pigments, glass beads, rest.
These bowl-bearing figures were placed at shrines of “shango”, the god of thunder and lightning. They are mostly found among the Igbomina and Ekiti tribes in North-Eastern Yorubaland.
The female figure represents a priestess of the cult. She wears a bowl (“arugba”) on her head, which was used to store neolithic celts that were repeatedly brought to light by peasants working in the fields. The stone celts were thought to be thunderbolts “edun ara”, as they were hurled to earth by “shango”.
L’objet Porteuse de coupe “arugba shango” avec l’ID d’objet 3048380 a fait partie de la dernière vente aux enchères 97e Vente aux enchères dans 6 novembre 2021 le Zemanek-Münster Hôtel des ventes. L’objet portant le numéro de lot 255 a atteint un prix de vente de 3 500 €.
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Expertise
Certificate of Authenticity, Karl-Ferdinand Schädler, Munich, 26.5.2014
Publications
AHDRC: 0145177