Fetish object: "Chair of the ancestors" ·  Ghana, Ewe · ID: 3037555

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)

The object Fetish object: “Chair of the ancestors” with the object ID 3037555 was part of the auction 78th tribal art auction on October 18, 2014. The object with the lot number 265 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,000 with an asking price of EUR 800.

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Comparing literature

Tapiero, Galia, Voodoo, The Arbogast Collection, Togo 2012, p. 88