An Akan Kuduo container, Ghana, fine aged patina, different layers of oxidised bronze.

Kuduo-container were created to store valuable possessions such as gold dust, and served the symbolic purpose of safeguarding their owners' kra, or life force. They played an important role in ceremonies intended to maintain the spiritual well-being of those who owned them. At life's end, kuduo were left at their owners' burial sites along with other personal possessions. If the kuduo belonged to a paramount chief, it would accompany his ceremonially blackened stool in a special room devoted to his spirit and memory. The latch mechanism typically displayed on the sides of such vessels refer to their role in retaining and protecting the souls of their owners.

800 - 1.000,- Euro

Height: 42 cm
Diameter: 19 cm
Weight: 4,4 kg