Skull fetish "glo" · Bénin, Fon · ID: 3037723
Vendu
1 500 €
Description
massive wooden bowl with handles in shape of human figures (male/female), a human skull inserted and the bowl filled with magical mass, the whole object coated with thick encrusted sacrificial patina, sacrificial traces, feathers, slightly dam., cracks;
“glo” are sacred objects which should protect humans against witchcraft and sorcery from other people.
Littérature comparée
Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl (Hg.), Skulpturen und Objekte aus der Region des Königreiches Dahomey, Marl 2008, p. 53, ill. 45