Male figure "bangala"

Description

wood, encrusted greyish brown patina, sacrificial traces (head, chest), indicated facial features, min. dam., cracks, traces of weathering, base;
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.