Beschreibung : wood, softly luminous blackish brown patina, necklace from indigo blue glass rings, slightly dam., abrasion of paint, cracks, base. The village chief keeps mahamba that safeguard the community in an enclosure behind his residence. The mahamba spirits receive prayers and offerings to ensure their protection or to soothe them. Often a carved figure, also called hamba, is created as a home for the spirit from which the patient has been freed. Continent: Africa
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Über das Lot Chargen- 487 Titel : Standing Female Figure Hamba Größe : H: 23,3 cm, H: 9,2 inch Herkunft : Peter Loebarth, Hameln, Germany (collected in the 1980s) Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany (1999) Literature : Petridis, Constantine, Art and Power in the Central African Savanna, Brussels 2008, p. 96 ff. Condition report : See description