Figure "tauwa" ·  Nigéria, Chamba · ID: 3041747

Description

wood, slightly encrusted brown patina, staff-like figure, iron tip at the bottom, min. dam., cracks, slight traces of abrasion, base;
“tauwa” figures are pure protective figures, which should help against snake poison, but they were used at harvest festivities as well. They were kept in small huts called “wula tauwa”, where they were stuck into the ground.

Littérature comparée

Schädler, Karl-Ferdinand, Lexikon Afrikanische Kunst und Kultur, München, Berlin 1994, p. 107

Publications

AHDRC: 0141976