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FANG - GABON - Lot 153

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FANG - GABON - Lot 153
FANG - GABON Carved wooden statue of an ancestor, guardian of a reliquary, depicting a man holding his chin. Wooden base with metal fixing rod (minor wear) Height 35.5 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 men ate their meals, young single men stayed and blacksmiths and sculptors 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 full-length statuettes were fashioned to surmount the 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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