Small male figure · Gabon, Tsogho · ID: 3037564
sold
EUR 2,000
Provenance
Josef Herman, Suffolk, Great BritainChristie’s Paris, 20 Juin 2006, lot 178
Size
H: 24 cm
H: 9.4 inch
Description
light brown wood, dark remains of pigments, of simplified form (especially the hands), min. dam., cracks (back), base;
the rare statuettes of the Tsogho were used for rites of the “bwiti” society (initiation society) and for the ancestral cult “mombe” (aside of reliquary busts, called “mumba bwiti”).