Large Pendant - Group From The South-west Of Burkina Faso - 19th Century

Large PENDANT depicting an openwork geometric composition, organised around TWO TORTUES and THREE stylised CAMELIONS represented by overlapping triangles and seven twisted spiral discs referring to the animals' hemmed tails. Double loops on the reverse. This ornament would have been worn on the belt by Turka diviners. Group from South-West Burkina Faso
19th century
Copper alloy; H.: 13.7; L.: 10.1 cm

Bibliography:
A similar example is reproduced in the book La culture matérialisée des ethnies de la région de la Volta. Axe principal: les objets en alliage de cuivre coulés à la cire perdue by Wilfried Glar, p.165.

N°102 from the exhibition-sale "Bronzes, miniatures monumentales".