Sitting female power figure ·  Cameroon, Kaka · ID: 3036041

Description

wood, strongly encrusted black patina, traces of red pigment, compact body, crested coiffure, horn-like forehead projection, both hands resting on the breasts, square deepening on the right side of the body, sacrificial traces (feathers/above all at the chin), slightly dam., vertical crack (trunk), traces of insect caused damage at the same place, metal plate;
probably used in connection with fertility. The thick sacrificial patina is impregnated with smoke, the result that the figures were kept in fireplaces as protection against insects.

The object Sitting female power figure with the object ID 3036041 was last part of the auction 75th tribal art auction at November 30, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 375.

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