Figure magique masculine avec barbe "mu po" · Cameroun Grassland, Bamiléké / Batié · ID: 3045429
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Provenance
Olivier Larroque, Nimes, France (2015)Description
wood, real hair, fragmentary, base
Bamileke healers and soothsayers used such small wooden statuettes to represent their patients, who would be treated at a distance. Recesses in the head and back were used to insert magical substances.
Publications
AHDRC: 0126115
Exposition
Paris, France: "Parcours des Mondes", 8-13 September 2015