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Figure ancestrale masculine "kpin sebla", Burkina Faso, Dagaaba (Dagaare / Dagari), Taille: H: 66 cm, ID: 3051107
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Figure ancestrale masculine "kpin sebla" ·  Burkina Faso, Dagaaba (Dagaare / Dagari) · ID: 3051107

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Provenance
Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria

Description

wood, encrusted sacrificial patina, traces of weathering, base

Ancestor sculptures, known as “kpin sebla”, were set up in hidden places or in shrines, and were only allowed to be seen by “initiates”. These figures received sacrificial offerings of millet, millet gruel or the blood of sacrificed animals.

Littérature comparée

Bognolo, Daniela, Lobi, Milan 2007, p. 57, Fig. 19

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