Figure féminine debout "tadep" ·  Nigéria / Cameroun, Plateau de Mambila, Mambila · ID: 3048021

Description

wood, pigments, base

These figures were usually called ancestor or guardian figures in literature. Much more likely, however, they seem to have been used ritually for healing ceremonies by a special association, the “suàgà” society.

Littérature comparée

Fagaly, William, Ancestors of Congo Square, New Orleans 2011, p. 238 Schwartz, Nancy, Mambilla, Milwaukee 1972, p. 19 ff.