Zemanek-Münster

Memorial figure

Ghana, Akan
sold EUR 1,000
Provenance
Thomas L. McNemar, Lexington, Virginia, USA
Size
H: 26 cm
H: 10.2 inch

Description

terracotta / ceramic, clay encrustations, fragmentary, rest., base

According to early reports, it was the custom to wash and repaint (with black paint) these figures and then to carry them in solemn processions at annually recurring commemorative ceremonies.

The rest of the time, according to Sieber, the figures are said to have been kept in special rooms or at shrines. The majority, however, seem to have been placed in or near cemeteries.


Comparing literature

Schädler, Karl-Ferdinand, Erde und Erz, München 1997, p. 175 f. Cole, Herbert M. & Doran H. Ross, The Arts of Ghana, Los Angeles 1977, p. 125

Publications

A Selected Portfolio of African Sculpture in the McNemar Collection, New York 1966

Notices

This object is subject to the UNESCO Cultural Heritage Protection Act. Export documents are required for export (subjected to a fee).


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