Mumba bwiti figure, positioned on top of a reliquary containing the bones of ancestors and magical preparations, both to protect them and as a focus for sacrifice, Used as part of the Bwiti cult which swept Gabon in the early decades of the C20th. Coloured bright red using a mixture of camwood, ochre and kaolin. Gabon, Equatorial Africa. Tsogo. Early 20th c Upper Ngoume region.

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