GABON. Haut Ogooué region. Kota ethnic group.
Reliquary... Lot 173
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GABON. Haut Ogooué region. Kota ethnic group.
Reliquary figure, portrait of an ancestor.
Wooden core covered with thin sheets of copper and brass.
(Cracks, restorations and missing pieces).
Height Height : 49 cm
With a blackened wooden base.
Provenance:
- Sale on June 15, 2013, Maison de ventes Leclerc, Marseille.
- Collection of Mr. M..., former Consul General in Dakar in the 2000s.
According to family tradition, this reliquary belonged to Henry Huon (1918-2007), a Belgian collector and former United Nations official who lived in Dakar for many years and acquired it near Franceville in the 1950s.
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