Standing female figure "tadep" · Nigeria / Kamerun, Mambila Plateau, Mambila · ID: 3048021
sold
EUR 1,000
Provenance
Fily Keita, Los Angeles, USASize
H: 31 cm
H: 12.2 inch
Description
wood, pigments, base
These figures were usually called ancestor or guardian figures in literature. Much more likely, however, they seem to have been used ritually for healing ceremonies by a special association, the “suàgà” society.
Comparing literature
Fagaly, William, Ancestors of Congo Square, New Orleans 2011, p. 238 Schwartz, Nancy, Mambilla, Milwaukee 1972, p. 19 ff.