Code: 13322
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A good, heavy, large scale Nigerian Yoruba bronze torque, 18th / 19th century, on a metal museum stand.
These neck rings were used as traditoinal high value, prestige currency and as wedding dowries. They were often made by melting down smaller value manilas and cast using the traditional lost wax technique. Spiral designs in Yoruba culture and cosmology signify continuity and the cyclical nature of life.
27cm high, 34cm high including stand.
