Mixed lot (4 items): Peul, also called Ful or Fulbe, West Africa, Sahelian zone: Four bangles made of silver-alloy, used as ornaments and as 'primitive money'.
Mixed lot (4 items): Peul, also called Ful or Fulbe, West Africa, Sahelian zone: Four bangles made of silver-alloy, used as ornaments and as 'primitive money'.
The Peul, also known as the Ful, Fulani or Fulbe, lived as nomadic animal breeders (cattle and goats) in the entire Sahelian zone of West Africa. From Senegal and Mauritania in the west to Cameroon in the east. Today the Peul are already settled in many regions. The present bracelet-type of the Peul served as ornaments, as well as valuable objects and ‘primitive money’ (pre-coinage form of currency). It was cast out of weak silver-alloy. Characteristic are the spiral twisting and the polyhedron ends, as well as a central middle section for each, in the form of doubled polyhedron ends which meet each other. These end pommels were punched and engraved with circles in varying sizes. DM: each c. 7 cm x 6.5 cm. First half of the 20th century. (ME)
Specialist: Erwin Melchardt
Erwin Melchardt
+43-1-515 60-465
erwin.melchardt@dorotheum.at
02.11.2015 - 14:00
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EUR 300.-
Mixed lot (4 items): Peul, also called Ful or Fulbe, West Africa, Sahelian zone: Four bangles made of silver-alloy, used as ornaments and as 'primitive money'.
The Peul, also known as the Ful, Fulani or Fulbe, lived as nomadic animal breeders (cattle and goats) in the entire Sahelian zone of West Africa. From Senegal and Mauritania in the west to Cameroon in the east. Today the Peul are already settled in many regions. The present bracelet-type of the Peul served as ornaments, as well as valuable objects and ‘primitive money’ (pre-coinage form of currency). It was cast out of weak silver-alloy. Characteristic are the spiral twisting and the polyhedron ends, as well as a central middle section for each, in the form of doubled polyhedron ends which meet each other. These end pommels were punched and engraved with circles in varying sizes. DM: each c. 7 cm x 6.5 cm. First half of the 20th century. (ME)
Specialist: Erwin Melchardt
Erwin Melchardt
+43-1-515 60-465
erwin.melchardt@dorotheum.at
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| Auction: | Tribal Art |
| Auction type: | Saleroom auction |
| Date: | 02.11.2015 - 14:00 |
| Location: | Vienna | Palais Dorotheum |
| Exhibition: | 28.10. - 02.11.2015 |