Statuette - Fang - Gabon (No Reserve Price)
No. 83805463
Sculpture - Fang - Gabon (No Reserve Price)
No. 83805463
Sculpture - Fang - Gabon (No Reserve Price)
Lovely Fang 3-faced reliquary figure from Gabon.
The Fang ethnic group number about 900,000 and constitute a vast village communities, established in a large zone of Atlantic equatorial Africa: consisting Cameroon, continental Equatorial Guinea and northern part of Gabon, on the right bank of the Ogowe River. Fang people used masks and statues/figures in their secret societies, the “bieri”, or ancestor sculpture. They celebrate this figure when a new crop was planted or before fishing or going hunting. Good condition with traces of wear and tear.
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May as well be viewed and picked up at the Asian African Art Gallery in Vessem (NL).
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