Surya Rutten

顶级非洲艺术拍卖（Montagut画廊）

在过去一个世纪里，像这样的古代石刻偶然出现在塞拉利昂南部农民的田野中。这批存世雕塑中的成千上万件的早期历史知之甚少。被他们的门德人（Mende）和基西人（Kissi）的发现者分别称为 nomoli（发现的灵魂）或 pomdo（逝者），这些发现常被理解为与久远过去的奇异联系点。对相关木质和陶质雕像的科学分析将这一传统追溯至公元十世纪甚至更早。题材包括坐像、雕刻头部以及人兽混合体。此例因体积异常而特别引人注目。艺术史学家弗雷德里克·兰普（Frederick Lamp）曾推测，这类创作与由 Sapi 族群所委托的王族或祖先纪念物有关，Sapi 是早期葡萄牙商人用来指称今日的坦姆尼（Temne）与布洛姆（Bullom）社区的前身的名称。 

出处：Jean-Michel Huguenin，巴黎

Over the past century, ancient stone carvings like this have surfaced in the fields of farmers in southern Sierra Leone. Little is known about the early history of this corpus of several thousand surviving sculptures. Referred to as nomoli (found spirit) or pomdo (the deceased) by their Mende and Kissi finders, respectively, these discoveries have been understood as wondrous points of connection to a distant past. Scientific analysis of related wood and ceramic figures dates this tradition back to as early as the tenth century C.E. The subjects depicted include seated figures, sculpted heads, and human-animal hybrids. This example is notable for its exceptional size. Art historian Frederick Lamp has hypothesized that such creations relate to royal or ancestral memorials commissioned by the Sapi, the name used by early Portuguese traders for the predecessors of today's Temne and Bullom communities.

Provenance: Jean-Michel Huguenin, Paris 

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