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Provenance: ex – collection Edouardo Uhart, Barcelona. Obtained from him in 1966 by Susanna Westerdijk.

Fang Eyema Byeri figures from the southwest of Cameroun are in fact Ntumu – style pieces with some extra details such as glass eyes and brass appliques that occur among the Ngumba and Mabea and are integrated into them. Here we have a figure holding what looks like a small bottle calabash in his hands. According to F. Cloth (see below), such containers were meant to prepair poison in for use in ordeals to unmask and kill evildoers. What we further notice in this large specimen (Ngumba – Mabea figures are usually considerably higher than Byeri figures from other groups) is the application of strips of brass that are adorned from the insided with bossed in dots and lines. Glass inset and brass rimmed eyes.

Literature: Frédéric Cloth: Fang Byeri under Judge’s skin, under the flesh of a healer. in: Finality without end by Serge Schoffel (ed.), Brussels, 2017, pp. 35-41. See also Yves le Fur (ed.) Les forêts natales, Paris, 2017, pp. 180 ff.

Dimensions: 81 x 18 x 17 cm.
Tribe / Region: The Ngumba – Mabea live in the southwestern most part of Cameroun, right on the border with Equatorial Guinea and Gabon.
Material: light wood, glass and brass.
Weight: 1.7 kg. without stand

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Sold with written declaration of authenticity by Dr. P. Westerdijk, museum ethnologist and cultural anthropologist specialized in the material cultures of people living south of the Sahara. 
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In good general state. It dates back to the first quarter of the 20th century. On stand.

Male reliquary figure – FANG-NGUMBA-MABEA – Cameroon

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