Lot 77
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AN IJEBU BRONZE BELL, cast as a head with keloids to the cheeks and forehead, the headdress with two loops flanking the central suspension loop, a pendant of two intertwined ovals cast in relief about the neck, probably 18th or 19th century

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AN IJEBU BRONZE BELL, cast as a head with keloids to the cheeks and forehead, the headdress with two loops flanking the central suspension loop, a pendant of two intertwined ovals cast in relief about the neck, probably 18th or 19th century
15cm. high

Lot Essay

Cf. Drewel and Pemberton, Yoruba, Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought, New York, 1989, p.123, fig.126.
According to the authors such bells were used by the Olisa and other important chiefs in Ijebu. The bells were worn on a sash over the right shoulder.

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