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Lot 76 Dα

YORUBA BRASS STAFF, ELEKU-ORO

Auction 1147 - overview Brussels
29.01.2020, 14:00 - Art of Africa, the Pacific and the Americas
Estimate: 1.000 € - 1.500 €
Result: 4.712 € (incl. premium)
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YORUBA BRASS STAFF, ELEKU-ORO
Nigeria

43 cm. high

According to William Fagg, the Oro society was a much feared body which among other things served as executioners for the Ogboni, and which held meetings in the bush at which the whirring sound of the bullroarer was heard. Their little known brass equivalents for the edan of the Ogboni are often even more sumptuous that the edan.

Provenance

Christie's, London, 1 December 1982, lot 179
Lempertz, Brussels, 25 April 2009, Lot 72

Literature

Bastin, M.-L., Introduction aux Arts d’Afrique Noire, Sarcelle, 1990, p.184, fig.166.