FANG - GABON - Lot 163

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FANG - GABON - Lot 163
FANG - GABON Statue of an ancestor, guardian of a reliquary holding a stick in his hands in patinated wood Height : 63 cm Height : 63 cm Note : In the Fang society, patrilineal, the authority was in the hands of the eldest of the family. The men's house in each village played an important role: it was a place for palaver and visitors, where the men ate their meals, where young single men stayed, and where the blacksmith and the sculptor worked in general consideration. Each clan, and later each head of family, kept in his hut a cylindrical bark box containing the skulls of the ancestors. Heads or statuettes in the form of feet were fashioned to cover these boxes containing the bones. Tied with lianas, they were kept in a small hut built away from the village houses. Source: African Art - Jacques Kerchache/Jean Louis Paudrat/Lucien Stephan - Mazenod, 1988
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