Statuaire reliquaire Kota Obamba / Mindumu (?) Reliquary Guardian (Mbulu Ngulu)
Early travelers’ illustrated accounts show reliquary guardians placed atop baskets containing skulls and bones of clan ancestors.
Informations complémentaires :
- Pays & Régions : Gabon
- Type d'objet : Statuaire
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- Provenance : Provenance: Christies Paris, sale 5068. Lot 305 Gary Hendershott Little RockVente Heritage Auction Galleries June 7, 2007 Dallas Texas Estimate: $25,000-$30,000 (2007) Lot N° 48233
- Bibliographie, Expositions : This example fits Category IV of A. and F. Chaffin's morphological classification, "...the classic Kota style which seems to originate in the Franceville region" (Louis Perrois. Ancestral Art of Gabon from the Collection of the Barbier-Mueller Museum. Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art, 1986, p.46).
- Caractéristiques : Wood, brass, copper, steel Height: 23 3/4 inches Width: 12 1/8 inches
Bois, cuivre, Figure de reliquaire Kota, Gabon, Kota, Obamba, Statuaire