Sculpture
Reliquary Figure
AF1880B
From: Gabon
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | AF1880B |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Fang |
| Provenience | Gabon |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Wood |
| Iconography | Male Head |
| Description | Reliquary head. Wooden sculptured head. used to guard ancestral spirits of skulls kept in cylindrical wooden boxes in shrines. (AF1880B Probably authentic Fang head, acc. to P. Ben-Amos 1982 while AF1880A is an imitation) |
| Height | 35 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from J. F. G. Umlauff, 1912 |
| Other Number | 1541 - Other Number | 020 - Cast Number |
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