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Description : Fante Female Shrine Figure, Akan Culture, Ghana Wood, natural pigments, fiber, glass beads Height 39 1/4in (99.7cm) Provenance Herbert and Nancy Baker Collection, Los Angeles/Chicago Thence by descent James Willis Gallery, San Francisco James Stephenson African Art, New York Jerry Solomon Collection, Los Angeles Cf. Robbins, Warren and Nancy Nooter, African Art in American Collections, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2004, fig. 526; and Seiber, Roy and Frank Herreman, Hair in African Art and Culture - Status, Symbols and Style, Prestel, 2000, p. 192 for a similar figure formerly in the Leon and Fern Wallace Collection and probably by the same hand. Robbins and Nooter note (ibid., p. 206), 'Large figural sculpture, stylistically related to that of the Anyi, is rare.' 'Like akuaba, larger figural sculptures have many functions. A considerable variety of forms exist, yet only in a few instances can we be sure of the original contexts and precise meanings, as there is rarely a form-function relationship. [. . .] The standing female icon common in West African sculpture has various interpretations. In these Akan examples, poise, dignity, and stability are the keynotes. Inheritance and succession follow the female line; women must be strong, solidly rooted to earth but upright on it.' (Cole, Herbert & Doran Ross, The Arts of Ghana, UCLA Museum of Cultural History, 1977, pp. 107-113) For further information on this lot please visit the website
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