Standing male power figure "mu po" · Prairie Camerounaise, Bamiléké · ID: 3041348
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Provenance
Rive Gauche, Paris, 13 June 2012, lot 102Joaquin Pecci, Brussels, Belgium
Description
wood, shiny dark brown patina, partly encrusted, with broad “grinning” mouth, small cavity in the head, min. dam., cracks, small missing parts, base;
Bamileke healers and soothsayers used such small wooden statuettes to represent their patients, who would be treated at a distance. Sometimes the statuettes have a cavity in the back (or in the head) into which magical substances would be placed and the cavity closed with a band of leather or cloth. Some of them would be carried by mask-wearing members of the “kungan” society during their big rituals.
Littérature comparée
Harter, Pierre, Arts anciens du Cameroun, Arnouville 1986, p. 263, ill. 298
Publications
AHDRC: 0129365