Fon Fetish Legba Iron Phallus ashanti The elaborately decorated top features

The elaborately decorated top features a repeating triangle pattern in green and cream glaze

exquisitely designed brooch features a crossbar adorned with two oblate spheres

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and offers a striking example of early Mesolithic craftsmanship

ensuring its owner's preparedness for the afterlife

Fon Fetish Legba Iron Phallus ashanti The elaborately decorated top featuresFon 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