"Pendant - Lobi Culture, Ivory Coast, Ghana And Burkina Faso - 19th Century"
PENDANT depicting a CROCODILE in half-hump, horizontal, a large suspension ring placed on its left side.Lobi culture, Ivory Coast, Ghana and Burkina Faso 19th century
Copper alloy; Long. : 9 ; L.: 3.9 cm
Bibliography:
A similar example is reproduced in the work West Africa Bronzes and other alloys by André Blandin, p.94. – photograph by P. Ravenhill, 1981.
No. 137 of the exhibition-sale “Bronzes, monumental miniatures”.
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