Figural superstructure of a speakers staff: policeman and prisoner ·  Ghana, Ashanti · ID: 3038380

Description

wood, black and light brown patina, rising from a rectangular platform, arranged one after the other, the prisoner with rope around the belly, holding a small anthropomorphic head in his right hand, slightly dam., small traces of insect caused damage (cap), breakage (rope);
surely depicting a proverb which the Akan use on both everyday and formal occasions of every variety.

Littérature comparée

Cole, Herbert M. & Doran H. Ross, The Arts of Ghana, Los Angeles 1977, p. 9