Zemanek-Münster

Figure "bangala"

Burkina Faso, Dagari/Bobo Dioulasso
sold EUR 500
Size
H: 84 cm
H: 33.1 inch

Description

wood, encrusted greyish brown patina, highly abstract in form, in the shape of a reversed “Y”, cracks, traces of weathering, minor missing parts, on metal plate;
not until the nineties of the last century the Dagaris phallic conceived abstract ancestor figures came to be known overseas. Each of these figures represents a deceased family member. They were placed on the ancestor shrines of families and were used in the ancestral cult.


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