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Senufo bronze chameleon pendant 13.01.866

Senufo bronze chameleon pendant13.01.866

Origin West and Central Africa | BURKINA FASO | Senufo

Material

Brass / bronze

Qualities

Museum quality (worthy to be added to a museum’s permanent collection)
Original condition
Collectible (fine or rare example of an object)
High aesthetic value

Dimensions 88 X 45 mm Weight: 80 gr

230.00 CHF

According to van Cutsem (2000) and Roberts (1995), the chameleon symbolizes cosmic order and ethics, whose physical features and behavior serve as images for the religious instructor's teachings. Among the Senufo people, chameleons represent the first animal in the Senufo creation myth. Such amulet pendants have also a protective function against sickness and from evil consequences after killing accidently a chameleon.