Récipient familial ou de clan "abusua kuruwa" ·  Ghana, Akan, Ashanti · ID: 3049456

Description

terracotta with black slip,

“Abusua kuruwa” may occasionally be found on household shrines but are used primarily in a post-burial funerary rite, known as “sora”, when the deceased’s soul is finally ushered into the afterlife.

This rite ends at the “asenie” or “place of the pots”, a clan-owned forest site set aside for this purpose. Earthenware pots are used to serve a ritual meal, prepared on site for the deceased’s spirit.

Shaved hair and clipped fingernails of the living relatives and the deceased are put into the container as an expression of clan solidarity and unity to counter death’s destabilizing effect.

L’objet Récipient familial ou de clan “abusua kuruwa” avec l’ID d’objet 3049456 a fait partie de la dernière vente aux enchères 99e vente aux enchères dans 12 novembre 2022 le Zemanek-Münster Hôtel des ventes. L’objet portant le numéro de lot 253 a atteint un prix de vente de 800 €.

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Littérature comparée

Nollert, Angelika (Hg.), Afrikanische Keramik aus der Sammlung Franz von Bayern, München 2019, p. 258