ORNEMENT DE JAMBE EN METAL GURUNSI

BURKINA FASO

细节

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

来源

Phillipe Guimiot, 1975

出版

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

展览

Brussels, 1988, no.24

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拍品专文

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.