Lobi Bronze Pendant: Depiction of Water Buffalo Head

Horned head with big round eyes and wavy lines pours down its face.

This bronze pendant depicting a water buffalo head is Lobi, and dates to the 20th century. It is burkina faso, ivory coast or ghana, west africa. The Lobi live in the borderlands of Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast and Ghana, and they are known for sculpture and for cast bronze ornaments. Pendant with an upward-curving pair of horns, a flat broad face with two round dark eyes and wavy vertical lines down the center. Crosshatched texture covers the horns and forehead. A loop sits at the top. The metal is dark and aged. It is 2.25 inches wide, 0.5 deep and 3 high.

Solid, horned and very certain of its stare.