Figure féminine accroupie "gheonga" ·  Gabon, Tsogho / Vuvi · ID: 3046666

Description

wood, colour pigments, brass, cord, base

The rare statuettes of the Tsogho were used for rites of the “bwiti” society and for the ancestral cult “mombe”

The figures were kept in the men’s house, together with the busts called “mbumba bwiti”, which were placed in relic baskets. During funeral rituals or the rituals that accompanied a new harvest, the figures were displayed.

A comparable figure in squatting posture published by Goy (2016), p. 57 (also AHDRC 0050106)

Littérature comparée

Phillips, Tom (Hg.), Afrika, Die Kunst eines Kontinents, Berlin 1996, p. 315 Goy, Bertrand, Tsogho, Paris 2016, p. 57