Squatting female figure "gheonga" · Gabon, Tsogho / Vuvi · ID: 3046666
sold
EUR 6,000
Provenance
Allan Stone, New York, USASize
H: 31 cm
H: 12.2 inch
Description
wood, colour pigments, brass, cord, base
The rare statuettes of the Tsogho were used for rites of the “bwiti” society and for the ancestral cult “mombe”
The figures were kept in the men’s house, together with the busts called “mbumba bwiti”, which were placed in relic baskets. During funeral rituals or the rituals that accompanied a new harvest, the figures were displayed.
A comparable figure in squatting posture published by Goy (2016), p. 57 (also AHDRC 0050106)
Comparing literature
Phillips, Tom (Hg.), Afrika, Die Kunst eines Kontinents, Berlin 1996, p. 315 Goy, Bertrand, Tsogho, Paris 2016, p. 57