Male power figure with beard "mu po" · Cameroon Grassfields, Bamileke / Batie · ID: 3045429
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Provenance
Olivier Larroque, Nimes, France (2015)Size
H: 17,5 cm
H: 6.9 inch
Description
wood, real hair, fragmentary, base
Bamileke healers and soothsayers used such small wooden statuettes to represent their patients, who would be treated at a distance. Recesses in the head and back were used to insert magical substances.
The object Male power figure with beard “mu po” with the object ID 3045429 was last part of the auction 91 Tribal Art Auction at March 9, 2019 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 271.
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Publications
AHDRC: 0126115
Exhibition
Paris, France: "Parcours des Mondes", 8-13 September 2015