Post-shaped memorial sculpture · Éthiopie, Konso · ID: 3032975
Alfons Bermel, Berlin, Germany
German Private Collection
Description
wood, greyish brown patina, enlivened by the contrary arrangement of the figures arms, the right one up and the left one down, resting on the accentuated male gender, traces of old age and weathering, cracks, on plate;
like the Gato, the Konso used pole-shaped memorial post sculptures, carved for important deceased personalities and the enemies killed by them. But whereas the Gato carve these posts only as memorials of the dead the Konso also produce them for the living and sometimes for themselves personally - together with prestige attributes which mark their position in the society.
L’objet Post-shaped memorial sculpture avec l’ID d’objet 3032975 a fait partie de l’enchère 69th tribal art auction en 2 juin 2012 pour la dernière fois le Zemanek-Münster Hôtel des ventes et avait le numéro de lot 453.
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Littérature comparée
Schädler, Karl-Ferdinand, Lexikon Afrikanische Kunst und Kultur, München, Berlin 1994, p. 235