TOMA BELLOWS 1, Guinea

TOMA, BELLOWS 1, 29", $600, Guinea

This bellow has been vetted as authentic with signs of use and age.

In traditional Africa, bellows were used not only as fire-stoking tool, but also as decorative or ritual objects filled with symbolic meaning. Once a functioning bellows for a blacksmith's forge, this is missing the leather covers and the two metal end pipes which extended out from what is here the bottom.

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