"Pendant Figuring A Snake - Gan Culture, Burkina Faso - 19th Century"
PENDANT depicting a SNAKE with a scaled body, devouring an ANTHROPOMORPHE FIGURE seen from the front in bust form, nipples and umbilicus indicated by applied pastilles. She is holding her head in her hands. A suspension ring is placed at the nape of her neck. Gan culture, Burkina Faso19th century Copper alloy
H. 12.5; L 3.6 cm
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A similar example is reproduced in Erde und Erz by Karl-Ferdinand Schaedler, p.127, fig. 198.
N°190 in the exhibition-sale "Bronzes, miniatures monumentales".
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