Antique Gurma Bracelet – Burkina Faso

Early 20th century. Bronze. Diameter max cm. 9,6 (3.78″); inner diameter max cm. 6,8 (2.68″). Grams 600,7 (21.19 oz.).

These bracelets were not meant to be worn, but to cure illness, especially rheumatism and arthritis.

Gurma is an ethnic group living mainly in northeastern Ghana, Burkina Faso, around Fada N’Gourma, and also in northern areas of Togo and Benin, as well as southwestern Niger.

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