Kota, Gabon - Lot 297

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Kota, Gabon - Lot 297
Kota, Gabon Reliquary figure, wood, copper H. 46 cm - W. 21 cm. Provenance: former collection, Strasbourg, France; acquired in the 1980s; passed down through the family. These sculptures, placed atop wicker baskets containing relics, were intended to watch over the ancestors’ bones. During major (bwett, mbulu-ngulu, or mboy) in which only initiates participated, the guardians and the reliquaries were brought out into the open so that the ancestors could participate, even after death, in the important decisions that clan members were called upon to make.
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