Porteuse de coupe "arugba shango" · Nigéria, Yoruba · ID: 3048714
Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 24 February 2007, Lot 434
Werner Zintl, Worms, Germany
Description
wood, encrusted red patina, indigoblue pigment, glass beads, cracks, 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 3048714 a fait partie de la vente aux enchères 98e vente aux enchères dans 26 mars 2022. L’objet portant le numéro de lot 63 a atteint un prix de vente de 4 500 € pour un prix d’adjudication de 3 500 €.
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Littérature comparée
Homberger, Lorenz (Hg.), Yoruba. Kunst und Ästhetik in Nigeria, Zürich 1991, p. 27