Male power figure with beard "mu po"
Cameroon Grassfields, Bamileke / Batie
not available anymore
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.
Publications
AHDRC: 0126115