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89 - Ritual rain-making iron
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Ritual rain-making iron with serpentine branches Wrought iron with a black patina, weathered by time and use. Mumuye, Nigeria. 36 cm From a tapered base springs a cluster of sinuous branches that fan out freely toward the sky, their movements evoking rearing snakes and flashes of lightning. Among the Mumuye people, such instruments accompanied rituals intended to bring the rains necessary for crops. Documentary reference: Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Atelier La pluie, educational packet, p. 6, Mumuye ritual iron, inv. 70.2012.14.9. General bibliography: Marla C. Berns, Richard Fardon, and Sidney Littlefield Kasfir (eds.), *Central Nigeria Unmasked: Arts of the Benue River Valley*, Los Angeles, Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2011.
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