Featured Beautiful brass bird figure...I believe it belongs here...help pls

Hello good people,

I got this beautiful (I believe it to be brass) bird figure...at first some African Gold Weight came to my mind but then I remembered that Gold Weights are not hollow (even that it is a bit hollow - it is really heavy for its size)...

But even if it is not Gold Weight...I believe it belongs here...but where exactly...I have no clue

I just LOVE IT!!!

Dimensions: 16 cm (6.3 in) height, 10.5 cm (4.1 in) length, 6 cm (2.4 in) width
Weight: Around 750 gr (26.5 oz or 1.7 lbs)

Please help, I would really really really love to find out more

Thank you and I hope you love it as well (but I didn't do it justice with the photos)

 

Maybe Edo-Benin?

 

I do not know unfortunately...but I think it was made with lost-wax casting, I forgot to mention that...if that helps

 

Also, could it be bronze (even everything tells me it is brass )?

 

and MOS you definitely pushed me into the right direction...it might be Edo-Benin as their lost-wax castings look really similar...but I am still unsure about that...but I found out about "Ahianmwen-oro" aka "Bird of prophecy" aka "Bird of disaster"...it definitely represents that...and also now...I am scared a bit why the fq is it called a bird of disaster???

Now it seems like it is looking at me ominously

help

 

It may be Dhokra, from West Bengal, India.

 

Are you sure it’s all metal? (Just wondering)

 

It might be

10000% sure...it is absolutely solid metal...you could crack someone head pretty easy with it...I guess

I will try to take some photos outside during day light...I think that will help a lot...I will post them tomorrow

 

You may have answered your own question here!

 

These explain the Benin "Bird of Prophecy" (disaster):

https://nationalzoo.si.edu/object/nmafa_73-7-742

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/316559

 

Thanks, this is interesting.