Sceptre "ipawo ase" · Nigéria, Yoruba · ID: 3035258
Vendu
450 €
Provenance
German Private Collection, Hamburg, collected in situ (1959 - 1965)Description
brass, dark patina, fork-shaped ending and surmounting human face framed by small eyelets, where originally small bells were attached, clapper missing, min. dam., slight traces of corrosion
Littérature comparée
Witte, Hans, Earth and the Ancestors, Ogboni Iconography, Amsterdam 1988, p. 154 f.