Voodoo worship fetish - Fon - Benin

A complex fetish made up of two terracotta containers swaddled together with fabric, strings and beads.
The witch doctor introduced into the composition two knives, magic charges and a wooden statue on which is tied a bone
From the fetish hangs an iron chain.
Expensive sacrificial patina.
Terracotta, fabric, iron, wood, bone, string beads, cowries
Voodoo worship, Fon people, Benin
Twentieth century
Height without the chain: 28 cm
Sold with its base

Ref: WHOARCF295