Male figure "bangala" · Burkina Faso, Dagari · ID: 3042790
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Provenance
Günther Filla, Bochum, GermanySize
H: 21 cm
H: 8.3 inch
Description
wood, brown patina, metal ring, upper part of the body partly wrapped with cloth, sacrificial traces (et. al. feathers), min. dam., cracks, base.
Not until the 1990s 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.
The object Male figure “bangala” with the object ID 3042790 was last part of the auction 87th Tribal Art Auction at November 11, 2017 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 78.
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