Photographer: Silke Karg | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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Frond consisting of a horse's tail, handle with leather and brass nails Frond, white horse's tail, handle with leather insert, studded with yellow brass nails with leather strips and cowrie shells (Berlin index). Note: probably insignia of the female orixá Yansa (associated with the world of the dead and lightning). Frond consisting of a light grey horse's tail, the end of which is covered with brown leather as a handle, studded with brass nails and decorated with red leather strips, on which cowrie shells are partly sewn ( Karteik. Wien) Entry in the main historical catalogue: Large white curly tail, handle decorated with leather and shell strings.
