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Nigeria, Yoruba

Provenance	Size	Starting price / estimated price
Wolfgang Klein, Vienna, Austria	H: 20.9 inch	sold

brass, base

Used in the cult of the river goddess "oshun", who bestows the gift of children. The cult has spread over practically the whole of Yorubaland, but is centred on the city of Oshogbo.

Eisenhofer, Stefan (Hg.), Kulte, Künstler, Könige in Afrika, Linz 1997, p. 297, ill. III/1.18

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