Standing female ancestor figure · Cameroun, Mambila · ID: 3034734
Description
wood, greyish black patina, encrusted in some areas, accentuation of the female sexual characteristics, voluminous belly with bulging navel, the large head with traditional heart-shaped face, deepened mouth opening with wooden splinters forming the teeth, slightly dam., cracks, missing parts through insect caused damage (both feet, left side of the chin), wooden socle;
much of Mambila art is associated with the seasonal cycles of planting and harvesting and the ancestral cult, whose material abode is the guarded shrine of every family compound. The real function of a figure cannot clearly be determined when once she has left her place of origin. Male figures might have served as guardians of the village - female figures might rather be seen in connection with fertility or as memorial figures.
L’objet Standing female ancestor figure avec l’ID d’objet 3034734 a fait partie de l’enchère 73rd tribal art auction en 25 mai 2013 pour la dernière fois le Zemanek-Münster Hôtel des ventes et avait le numéro de lot 315.
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Littérature comparée
Gebauer, Paul, Art of Cameroon, New York 1979, p. 190