Price; Includes Free UK Postage £100.
Age; Early 20thC Possibly Older.
Sculpture; is 17cm Tall.
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Smaller Old Brass Indian Horned Koya Sculpture made by the Khond People of Bengal. The Koya mask with bison horns symbolizes strength and vigor and are often used and placed on roadside shrines.
The Khonds were historically animists. Traditionally the Khond religious beliefs were historically animists, combining totemism, animism, ancestor worship, shamanism and nature worship. The Khonds gave highest importance to the Earth goddess, who is held to be the creator and sustainer of the world. But the extended contact with the Oriya speaking Hindus made Khonds to adopt many aspects of the Hinduism and Hindu culture. British writers also claimed the Khonds practiced human sacrifice.
