IGBO NIGERIA Ritual altar "OFO" The OFO are... - Lot 70 - Mytika Honfleur

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IGBO NIGERIA Ritual altar "OFO" The OFO are... - Lot 70 - Mytika Honfleur
IGBO NIGERIA Ritual altar "OFO" The OFO are the most important cult objects of the Igbo people,equalling in power the Byeri of the Fang and the nail fetishes of the Congo people.wooden body,without limbs,tightly bound in an iron mesh,stretched towards the face to be freed in aureole.sacrificial patina. Height: 80cm Collected in situ in 1978. Col.Itzikowicz,Paris. Galerie Monbrison,Paris. Col.particulière,Neuilly/Seine. Al.Espenel,R.Hondart, "Ofo Anam",galerie l'Acrosonge,Paris,2001.
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