The Brooklyn Museum's own catalogue record for a separate, physically distinct 19th century Fon bocio, accession 49.45, collected in 1922, describing the general Fon practice of placing bocio in tombs alongside the deceased as a safeguard against misfortune, witchcraft and death. Used here only to corroborate the bocio type's form and its documented protective role, not for facts specific to the Yale object.
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Assessment
Reliability Tier2
Tier two: the holding institution's own catalog record, used here to independently corroborate the bocio type's general form and its documented protective and mortuary role, not for facts specific to the Yale object. Citation
PublisherBrooklyn Museum
URLhttps://www.brooklynmuseum.org/objects/4751
Source TypeMuseum
Claims Backed By This Source (7 claims)
This source backs 7 claims across the atlas. As facts: 6 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.
- Sacred Art & Iconography, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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