Standing female figure ·  Togo, Tchamba · ID: 3034930

Description

wood, encrusted greyish brown patina, min. remains of black paint, cylindrical body, rising from slender legs, head with flat chin and massive crested coiffure, dam., missing parts (left arm, back), cracks, traces of weathering (feet), metal plate;
the name Tchamba stands for both, a city located in Tchamba Prefecture in the central region of Togo, and the tribe living in that area. The Tchamba are known as indigenous people of Northern Ghana. Due to major tribal wars in the aftermath of the First World War, many of them fled to present-day Tchamba in Northern Togo, while others fled to Accra, but a third group survived in the North of Ghana.