Ornament

African

  • Titles Ornament (Descriptive)
  • Medium iron
  • Dimensions 10 1/8 x 1 1/8 x 1 in. (25.7 x 2.9 x 2.5 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Mortimer B. and Sue Fuller, 2006.116
  • Work Type ornament
  • Classification Furnishings and Equipment

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Geometric Gold Weight with Key Designs, Asante people or, Baule people, Akan group, Ghana or, Côte d'Ivoire, African, brass
Kneeling Female Figure, Yoruba people, Nigeria, African, stone and cowrie shells
Vertical iron pole with six iron currency objects attached at top; three objects are iron hoe-blade currencies, and three are possibly rattles, hoe-shaped but open in center and with an enclosed portion that could have held percussive elements Function: Currency staffs constitute a display of wealth; if it is Fulani, it would have been owned by settled Fulani rather than nomadic herders.
Rattle, Democratic Republic of the Congo, African, fiber, string, seed pods