Figure gardienne d'un ensemble de reliquaires "byeri" ·  Cameroun du sud, Fang, Mabea · ID: 3044817

Description

wood, rep., base

The Mabea are a Fang subgroup that settled along the coast of southern Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon.

Present figure served as guardian figure and was fixed on receptacles containing the reliquaries of venerated ancestors.

They should remind of the faded person and should prevent people who were not allowed, to have a look into such boxes. They presented a kind of protecting house spirit as well, they should keep away evil and bad spirits.

At the moment of ritual, for example propitation or initiation, the skulls, bones and wooden statues were smeared with several different unguents with precise and secret symbolical functions.

L’objet Figure gardienne d’un ensemble de reliquaires “byeri” avec l’ID d’objet 3044817 a fait partie de la dernière vente aux enchères 90.I Tribal Art ainsi que 90.II Contemporary Native American Art dans 17 novembre 2018 le Zemanek-Münster Hôtel des ventes. L’objet portant le numéro de lot 227 a atteint un prix de vente de 6 000 €.

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