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  • Pilgrims-icon. Thin wooden panels, covered in leather. Fresco-painting. 2nd Half 20th Cent. Dim. 15 x 11 cm. Orthodox-Christian Church. Ethiopia.

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  • "Magic scroll" ; a folded parchment with magical and spiritual drawings, ment to protect the bearer. 12 parchment pages with biblical texts on both sides. Decorated with 7 drawings. L. 97 cm. Orthodox-Christian. Ethiopia.

     

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  • Three wooden finials, worn on top of chief staffs or umbrella's. Covered in goldpaper. H. 28-34 cm. Ashanti, Ghana.

     

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  • "Asin"- staff used on ancestral altars. Made of sheet-metal and representing a tribal chief. H.93 cm. On steel socle. Fon, Benin.

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  • Set of flying birds, given to a decorated farmer; “meillieur cultivateur”. L. 56cm. Senoufo,Ivory Coast. On steel socle.

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  • A pair of wooden stilts, with traces of decorations. H.200cm. Dogon.Mali.

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  • Large buffalo-marionette, used in performances by the Bozo of Mali.L.183cm.On steel socle.

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  • Brightly coloured fish-marionette, used by the Bozo-fishermen in their performances on the river Niger. Mali, L.102cm. Height incl. steel socle 50cm.

     

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  • Two Neolithic grindstones, 35 and 46 cm. long with extra tools, used to grind wheat or maize or to grind hematite for its ocre colour. Northern-Mali/Sahara.

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