Figure d´ancêtre masculin "kpin sebla" ·  Burkina Faso / Ghana, Dagaaba (Dagaare / Dagari) · ID: 3049998

Description

wood, signs of age and weathering

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.