Fon Fetish Legba Iron Phallus ashanti Each household compound maintains a

Each household compound maintains a Dexoxos

sculptural bracelets were high-status adornments often found in Ban Chiang burial contexts

exquisitely designed brooch features a crossbar adorned with two oblate spheres

Superb and rare thorn spindle with attached pottery spindle whorl

Wealth items include polished oblong stones (ye)

Fon Fetish Legba Iron Phallus ashanti Each household compound maintains aFon people, mid 20th century, Togo, Benin or Ghana, West Africa Exceptional forged iron phallic fetish associated with Legba, crafted by the Fon people of the TogoGhana border region. Objects of this type were traditionally driven into the earth to stimulate agricultural fertility, invoking Legbas vital generative power. In Vodun belief, Legba is often represented as a phallus or as a man bearing an exaggerated phallus. Known as the youngest son of