Standing male power figure "mu po" · Prairie Camerounaise, Bamiléké · ID: 3041348
Joaquin 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.
L’objet Standing male power figure “mu po” avec l’ID d’objet 3041348 a fait partie de l’enchère 84th Tribal Art Auction en 5 novembre 2016 pour la dernière fois le Zemanek-Münster Hôtel des ventes et avait le numéro de lot 336.
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Littérature comparée
Harter, Pierre, Arts anciens du Cameroun, Arnouville 1986, p. 263, ill. 298
Publications
AHDRC: 0129365