Six goldweights: figures
Ghana, Akan
sold
EUR 150
Provenance
Jürgen & Gisela Büse, Rheinbreitbach, Germany (collected in situ, 1973-75)Description
brass, with patina, magician offering a cock to the “nkabere” fetish (h: 4 cm); female figure carrying a child on the back (h: 5 cm); hornblower (h: 4,4 cm); hungry man (h: 3,7 cm): proverb: “The intestines do not cooperate with the stomach”; armed man with calabashes (h: 4 cm); squatting monkey (h: 3 cm)