This mazo was made by Babalade for Shango.
It is made with glass, wood and crocheted beads with a turtle shell used in the main gloria.
It is 34 inches long. It is not for sale
Shango mazo
The tassel shows greater detail.
Back side of the main tassel
This mazo was made by Babalade for Shango.
It is made of glass and wood.
This mazo is not for sale.
The main tassel and house show greater detail.
Tassel
This mazo was made for Shango.
It is made of glass beads with bone turtles embedded in the glorias. It is 30 inches long. The glorias are 9-1/2 inches from the top of the glorias. It weighs around 3-3/4 pounds.
There are eight houses with six tassels. There are ten strands in the frame and tassels, with twenty strands in the main tassel.
Mazo
Main tassel and house shows greater detail.
Tassel
Detail
This mazo is not for sale.
This mazo was made by Ewe Ide for Shango.
It is made entirely of glass and wood beads with bone turtles worked into the glorias. Note the wonderfully varied wood beads.
It is 36″ long. The tassels are 8 1/2″ long from the top of the glorias.
Ewe Ide made this set of an eleke, a traditional ide and a cowrie shell ide for Shango.
They are made of red and white glass and wood beads. The eleke is 21″ long.
The traditional ide is 8″ long and the cowrie shell ide is 8-1/2″ inches long.
