Figure reliquaire "mbulu" ou "mwete" · Gabon, Kota, Obamba ou groupe Mindumu · ID: 3043560
French Private Collection, Paris
Oger & Semont, Drouot-Richelieu, Paris, 22 June 2007
Massol, Drouot, Paris, 13 May 2009, lot 161
Michael Vignold, Köln, Germany
Boris Kegel-Konietzko, Hamburg, Germany
Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 28 May 2011, lot 294
Description
wood, brass and copper sheet, metal nails and -clamps, slightly dam., cracks in the metal plating (coiffure), missing parts through insect caused damage and weathering (dimaond-shaped handle), small traces of corrosion (eyes), base.
The ancestral cult forms the centre of the religious and social life within the family collective. When a patriarch died, various relics were taken from his body and were kept in wickerwork baskets with stylized figures on top. Each family clan owned such a reliquary ensemble, which were all kept in the background of the chiefs hut. At initiation rites the family clans gathered and each clan leader performed a dance holding the respective reliquary in his hands.
L’objet Figure reliquaire “mbulu” ou “mwete” avec l’ID d’objet 3043560 a fait partie de l’enchère 88e vente aux enchères Tribal Art en 10 mars 2018 pour la dernière fois le Zemanek-Münster Hôtel des ventes et avait le numéro de lot 366.
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Littérature comparée
Perrois, Louis, Art ancestral du Gabon dans les collections du Musée Barbier-Mueller, Genf o.J., p. 191, ill. 9 Lagamma, Alisa (ed.), Eternal Ancestors, New York 2007, ill. 82
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