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
