Brea, California, United States
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Featuring high end lots from a variety of categories and cultures. Many excellent examples of edged weapons, armour and antique fire arms. A wide variety of ancient and pre-Columbian lots, fine vetted African lots, ethnographic antiques and Asian art just in time for the holidays.
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LOT 296:
Mumuye African Rain Wand, 20th Century
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Sold for: $300
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300
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$600 - $900
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Mumuye African Rain Wand, 20th Century
Wonderful iron-forged African rain wand with captivating serpentine style rods, with diamond shaped tips. Base of each end is fused to the central body with a tapered handle. Mumuye shamans would use rain-making wands such as these because they believed their snake-like forms mimicked flashes of lightening. Shamans would place the wands into the earth petitioning the gods to let the rain fall. Size 22 1/2" L (Stand for photography purposes only)
Collection of Mr. M. Clayton, Long Beach, California, USA. Mr. Clayton is a noted African art dealer having previously noted items at the UCLA Fowler Museum from September 2018 - March 2019.
Condition: Fine oxidation commensurate with age.
