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Reliquary figure
Skull guard figure (male) sitting with a peg at the back. This figure can be placed on the rim of a bark bast vessel. The eyes are brass discs nailed on Entry in the main historical catalogue: "Wooden figure"
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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Fang (Pangwe, Fan)
Object type
Reliquary figure
Dimensions
Höhe: 42 cm
Material/Technique
Wood, Brass
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 36844
Provenance and sources
when
19th century
where
Cameroon [Land/Region]
Gabon [Land/Region]
Ntumu Group
who
Pangwe
Fang (Pangwe, Fan)
who
August Widenmann - Collectors
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