Descubra la tasación y los precios de esta y más obras de arte africano en Africartmarket. Floor-Size Bulu Tribe Monkey Statue

Descripción : Rare Floor-size Carved Wooden monkey statue, sculpture from the Bulu (Boulou) tribe, a subgroup of the Beti-Fang people in Cameroon and Gabon. Dark tone wooden monkey with raffia skirt, one hand on belly. The monkey is meant to represent knowledge and its relationship between humans and animals in nature, and strongly symbolizes spirituality. The sculpture measures approx 28 inches in height by 10 inches in diameter. Sculpture has minor surface wear like scratches and discoloration of wood consistent with age. African Art, Tribal Art, African sculpture, ethnographic Art, African folk art, collectible African arts. Property of a New York Private Collection. ’’Nagualism’ is a practice that consists of a secret association between a human and a nkug spirit, which is actually the evil eviction of a deceased person transformed into an animal that we will put at his service for hunting or possibly other purposes such as bewitchments - to protect himself or project. Cyrille Béla further states that ‘the ngi gorilla, the wa'a

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