A very rare and ancient bracelet decorated with four tree-like motifs in relief of masks and fish whose tails end in human heads. This bracelet is comparable to another example with a very similar iconography but not identical, exhibited and reproduced in The Art of Metal in Africa/1983 (n°H31 of the catalog) from the former F. Rolin Gallery and commented at length by Marie Thérèse Brincard in a chapter on page 63 entitled Two Bracelets: Continuing Questions in the same catalog, evoking its precise attribution, notably to the Ogboni society or not, and its dating. Bronze, very beautiful patina of oxidation of oldness, wears. Yoruba, Nigeria. Height : 8,2 cmLabel with number 1. Provenance : Acquired in 1971 .