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Figure "bangala" ·  Burkina Faso, Dagari · ID: 3033132

Vendu 800 €
Provenance
Mon Steyaert, Brussels, Belgium
Harald & Ursula Suhr, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada / Germany (1985)

Description

wood, encrusted greyish brown patina, highly abstract in form, in the shape of a reversed “Y”, simplified facial features, cracks, traces of weathering, minor missing parts, on metal plate;
in the nineties of the last century the Dagaris phallic conceived abstract ancestor figures came to be known overseas. Each of these figures represents a deceased family member. They were placed on the ancestor shrines of families and were used in the ancestral cult.


Littérature comparée

Förster, Till, Skulptur in Westafrika, Freiburg im Breisgau 1995, p. 122


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