"Pendant Called Fanaga - Gan Culture, Burkina Faso - 19th Century"
A PENDANT known as a Fanaga, halfway between a representation of a SERPENT - probably a python - and a CAIMAN, as described by Bertrand Goy in his book Bronzes gan, La spirale du serpent, holds a fish in its mouth.Gan culture, Burkina Faso
19th century
Copper alloy; H.: 17.4; L.: 4.2 cm
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A similar example is reproduced in the book Bronzes gan, La spirale du serpent by Maine Durieu, p.41.
No. 100 in the exhibition-sale "Bronzes, miniatures monumentales".
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