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Reliquary Figure, Fang Peoples browse these categories for related items... All Items: Archives:Regional Art: Pre 1920: item # 264653 Please refer to our stock # 1-0083 when inquiring.
AfricAsia Primitive and Antiques La Borie 81170 Livers Cazelles, FRANCE (33) 5.63.56.27.98 Guest Book SOLD |
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| Female figure with typical coiffe, large oval eyes, small ears, triangular nose, open mouth showing teeth, cylindrical neck, muscular shoulders and arms, conical breasts, cylindrical abdomen with protruding navel, bent legs resting on small feet. A tenon at the lower back side was used to attach the figure to the reliquary box. Wood, with dark-brown semi-glossy patina, covered in some areas with black pigment or remnants of sacrificial material. Africa, South-Cameroon/North Gabon,Fang Peoples. Height: 16 1/2" (42 cm). Chips at feet, left breast and lower back, erosion, small age cracks, otherwise good condition. Ex. old French collection. Note 1: a similar statue belongs to the Barbier Mueller Museum collection in Geneva. Note 2: the piece is typical of the style of the Fang reliquary figures that were sculpted by the Fang tribes of the Southern Cameroon and equatorial Guinea region. Note 3: bibliography: see the superbly documented and illustrated book on the Fang, published in 1991 by Dapper Museum in Paris. | ||||||||
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