FANG - GABON - Lot 151

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FANG - GABON - Lot 151
FANG - GABON Wooden dagger, the handle carved with a man with his hands clasped on his stomach (one leg damaged) Metal presentation base Height 22.5 cm - Height with base: 30 cm Note: In the patrilineal Fang society, authority was in the hands of the eldest member of the family. The men's house in each village played an important role: a place for palaver and visitors, where the men ate their meals, young single men stayed and the blacksmith and sculptor worked in general esteem. Each clan, then each head of family, kept a cylindrical bark box in his hut containing the skulls of the ancestors. Heads or standing statuettes were fashioned on top of these boxes containing the bones. Tied with lianas, they were kept in a small hut built away from the village dwellings. Source: L'Art africain - Jacques Kerchache/Jean Louis Paudrat/Lucien Stephan - Mazenod, 1988
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