Seated figure "bochio" · Benin, Fon · ID: 3032145
sold
EUR 1,500
Size
H: 96 cm
H: 37.8 inch
Description
wood, encrusted sacrificial patina, wearing a loincloth and a headscarf, wearing strings of cowrie snails and wooden beads around the neck, wrists and ankles, a big and two small calabashes attached to a belt, min. dam., fissures, slight traces pf abrasion;
the “bochio” receive various sacrifices, such as foodstuffs and palm oil, which should enhance the power of the “bochio”. Calabashes were attached for soothsaying, pieces of iron should symbolize ancestors.