Double figure ·  Nigeria, Chamba · ID: 3033137

Description

wood, brown patina, unusual representation, two figures (male/female) with cylindrical torsi rising from one pair of legs, partly coated with resin-like mass inset with abrus seeds (partly missing), min. dam., minor missing parts, slight traces of abrasion;
presumably a variation of the “tauwa” figure type, where a female version “tau-kendoa” and a male version “tau-wandoa” are known. They have no connection with ancestral cult; they present protective figures, which mainly should help against snake venom, but are used at harvest festivities as well.

Comparing literature

Fardon, Richard, Stelzig, Christine, Column to volume, London 2005, p. 43, ill. 4b