DIVINATORY BELL DRILLING HAMMER called Laouré with a handle decorated with a female figure standing, her hands resting on her scarified abdomen, on either side of her protruding navel.

The half-moon shaped door knocker is entirely incised with a decoration of geometric motifs, openwork and featuring two faces with shell-shaped headdresses.

Baoulé culture, Ivory Coast

Copper alloy
H.: 25; L.: 7.8 cm

No. 745 of the exhibition “BRONZES, MONUMENTAL MINIATURES”, second part