Tête commémorative ·  Ghana, Akan · ID: 3044029

Description

ceramic/terracotta, base

The style of this head is close to the William Brill head pictured in Cole and Ross, The Arts of Ghana, 1977, ill. 282 .

Memorial heads such as this example have at least a 400-year heritage among the Akan where they represent the retainers or a generalized portrait of an important elder, either male or female. They were not positioned on the grave, but placed either in a sacred grove “asenie” close to the cemetery or in a shrine or stool room where libations and sacrifices were occasionally offered and rituals were performed.

L’objet Tête commémorative avec l’ID d’objet 3044029 a fait partie de l’enchère 89e vente aux enchères Tribal Art en 7 juillet 2018 pour la dernière fois le Zemanek-Münster Hôtel des ventes et avait le numéro de lot 231.

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Littérature comparée

Cole, Herbert M. & Doran H. Ross, The Arts of Ghana, Los Angeles 1977, ill. 282

Publications

AHDRC: 0153683