Fante Figure

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WAK 0704-02

Fante Female Figure, Ghana

H: 29 cm (11,4″), W: 7,5 cm (3″)

Wood light brown

This is a fine delicate Fante, Ghana shrine figure used to worship a living or a dead person.

Age: Est. mid 20th Century

Provenance: Dutch collection

Literature: Kunstverein Aalen e.V. (Hg.): Kunst der Akan, Ausst.kat., Aalen 1995, p. 40, ill. 156
A History of Art in Africa: Monica Blackmun Visona, Robin Poynor, Herbert M. Cole, Suzanne Preston BlierThe Ashanti Akua’ba Statues as Archetype, and the Egyptian Ankh: A Theory of Morphological Assumptions: Ladislas Segy

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