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.
The object Stone head “pomdo” with the object ID 3042297 was last part of the auction 86th Tribal Art Auction at May 27, 2017 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 169.
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Comparing literature
Tagliaferri, Aldo & Arno Hammacher, Die steinernen Ahnen, Graz 1974, ill. 26
Publications
AHDRC: 0142066