Dogon Silver Ring

A wide, smooth band with a pair of round knobs clinging to one side.

This dogon silver ring is Dogon, from West Africa. Silver rings across the Sahel and West Africa are often cast or hand-worked, and they were traditionally worn as personal ornament and as a store of value. A heavy, broad ring of pale metal with a rounded outer face that is scratched and softly dented. Two small lumps are fused to the side, and the inner edge is slightly uneven. Bare of other decoration.

Plain except for its two small, round opinions.