Trois figures équestres "putchu guinadji"

Description

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“Kotoko Horsemen” or “putchu guinadji” as the local population calls them, are talismans produced and used in Chad and in northern Cameroon and likely also in northeastern Nigeria as well as southeast Niger.

Similar to amulets worn around the world they are believed to bring good luck or blessings of the gods. Their main function is to protect those possessed of evil spirits, with the obejctive of chasing evil spirits away permanently.

The “putchu guinadji” are produced in the lost wax method. They represent warriors mounted on horseback, sometimes elephants, camels and other unknown and imaginative animals.