ORNEMENT DE JAMBE EN METAL GURUNSI

BURKINA FASO

Details

ORNEMENT DE JAMBE EN METAL GURUNSI
Burkina Faso
De forme annulaire recourbée, supportant trois têtes masculines et une projection verticale. Belle patine croûteuse.
Diamètre maximale: 21.5 cm

Provenance

Phillipe Guimiot, 1975

Literature

Bastin, M.-L., Utotombo, l'Art d'Afrique noire dans les collections privées belges, Brussels, 1988, p.130, no.24

Exhibited

Brussels, 1988, no.24

Further details

A GURUNSI METAL LEG ORNAMENT

Lot Essay

Fisher, A. : African Adorned, London, 1984, p.124 for an almost identical anklet with four heads. The author states that the heads represented are those of ancestors whose power and protection is elicited by the wearing jewellery with such images.

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