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Skull guard figure

"Skull guardian figure, male" shape: A seated figure with two nails as eyes, holding a drinking horn in front of his chest with both hands. The peg, which looks like an extended coccyx and is intended to be clamped onto the rim of a vessel, has been cut off far enough for the figure to stand Colour: Black Condition: Several long cracks, glued breaks.

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Fang (Pangwe, Fan)
Object type
Skull guard figure
Dimensions
Objektmaß: H: 43,5 cm
Material/Technique
Wood, Brass
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 45219

Provenance and sources

where
Cameroon [Land/Region]
who
Fang (Pangwe, Fan)

who
Prof. Essomba - Collectors

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