Stone head "pomdo" · Sierra Leone, Kissi/Sapi · ID: 3042297
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Provenance
French Colonial CollectionSize
H: 9,5 cm
L: 9 cm
H: 3.7 inch
L: 3.5 inch
Description
face with simplified features and chin beard, hole in the parting, rep. (breakage neck), traces of abrasion, small missing parts, wooden base;
the Kissi believe that these figures personated their forefathers. When a chief or another important person died the “pomdo” was buried in a rice field or next to a tree planted by the deceased.
Comparing literature
Tagliaferri, Aldo & Arno Hammacher, Die steinernen Ahnen, Graz 1974, ill. 26
Publications
AHDRC: 0142066