Fetish figure - FON - Benin - Voodoo altar fetish

Voodoo altar fetish - FON (Togo)
Height 23 cm
Beautiful patina of libations, magical charges, cowrie shells, vials containing magical potions.
Voodoo has integrated Catholic rites and conceptions, making it acceptable. Thus was born the “Christian voodoo.”
In the 1950s, the Vatican made peace with the voodoo cult.
Voodoo is the cultural foundation of the Adja peoples (including the Fons, the Gouns, the Ewe … and to some extent the Yoruba…) peoples who constitute an important element of the populations south of the Gulf of Benin states (Benin, Togo, Ghana, Nigeria…).