This item was part of a total collection of ritual objects taken from a family in Lasie Tuolu, northwest Ghana. The owner has been converted to Christianity and handed the objects over to the Parish Priest.
Animal skulls tied together with a string or jute fibre rope. At various stages of life as a bagr initiate certain animals are offered as sacrifice and the skulls preserved. These skulls are likely to be that of a goat or a sheep. Some of the bones are acquired at the time of the black bagr initiation which prepares an individual to take over custodianship of the ancestral cult as a family health institution. Description: These skulsl look black in colour and appear to have been kept in the kitchen where smoke can easily get to them. . The heads of the animals used for the initiation ritual are kept as part of the shrine and these become relics