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Pièce Unique

Réf : KOT10

H 77cm x L 28cm

Weight: 2100Gr

shipping : 48H

Description:

Under the name of Kota, one indicates many ethnos groups living in L Is of Gabon. In the aesthetic plan, they raise  the same cultural current come from north, but the shapes of the figurines vary. The face is always covered with metal, coppers or brass, worked either in juxtaposed wire sheets or. use of the metal, regularly rubbed with sand to revive  glare of them, was intended to reinforce  psychological impact of these figurines they were presented, brilliant in the half light, during night rites. The remainder of time the reliquaries were grouped by clans in shade a devoted hut, with shelter of the glance laymen, but near the village. With origin for all the reliquaries Mahongwé and Kota, the mounting of the figurine was planted in a package of relics. The reliquary expresses  a very strong manner persistence and authority of the défuns which remain thus doubly present, with the material plan initially, since bones are preserved, in the mythical plan then, through the figurine which  is never  portrait, but an abstract evocation of  ancestor. The heads of household had some formerly in their boxes, those is dates one or two generations behind.