Female Puzzle Hammer with Bonnum Amwin Mask
Baule · Côte d’Ivoire
Reference: MART-9
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- Material
- Wood, rope and pigments.
Many of these hammers of percussion or hammers of “gong” or divinatory besides serving to beat the drums or bells are objects used in divination rituals.…
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Full original description
Many of these hammers of percussion or hammers of “gong” or divinatory besides serving to beat the drums or bells are objects used in divination rituals. They mark the rhythms that lead to divinatory trances. The “ate” The fortune - teller hits the gong or drum, bell, or other sound - producing objects so that this rhythmically produced sound favors contact with the spirits who possess him and enter into a trance state.
There are two types of percussion hammers:
Kokowa: purely utilitarian and without any aesthetic quality.
Lawle: Delicately sculpted, with carefully chiseled ornaments. The decoration of these hammers is varied: Figures zoomorphs, female characters, male sacred masks or figures of ancestor. Many hammers are decorated with a mask Bo Num Amwin Which is a male sacred mask, fire spitter. They often constitute true works of art.
Further technical information
- Attributed period
- First third of the century XX
Details transcribed from the original catalogue; they are not a recent physical inspection.
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Côte d’Ivoire. The country associated with the catalog is shown, not the current location of the piece.
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