Figure "bangala" · Burkina Faso, Dagari/Bobo Dioulasso · ID: 3033910
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.