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BLANCHET & Associés
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Janus figure from a Kota reliquary, Gabon, wood, copper, H.
See original version (French)
90
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Janus figure from a Kota reliquary, Gabon, wood, copper, H.
See original version (French)
Estimate €400 - €600
Voluntary lot
Description
Janus figure from a Kota reliquary, Gabon, wood, copper, H.40cmxW.20cm (plinth). These sculptures surmounting the wicker baskets containing the relics were intended to guard the ancestors' bones. On the occasion of major clan ceremonies (bwett, mbulu-ngulu or mboy) attended only by the initiated, the guardians and reliquaries were brought out into the open so that the ancestors could participate in the important decisions that clan members were called upon to make after their death.
See original version (French)
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