Fetish object: "Chair of the ancestors" · Ghana, Ewe · ID: 3037555
sold
EUR 1,000
Provenance
British CollectionSize
H: 46 cm
B: 38,5 (Hocker)
H: 18.1 inch
B: 38,5 (Hocker)
Description
conglomerate of various objects (two anthropomorphic figures, two animal skulls, some metal objects, pieces of wood wrapped with cloth) fixed on a stool, the whole object coated with thick encrusted sacrificial mass and white pigment, traces of liquids, dam., missing parts (stool), cracks, rep. (legs of the stool)
Comparing literature
Tapiero, Galia, Voodoo, The Arbogast Collection, Togo 2012, p. 88