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A Fon Bocio, Togo/Benin, heavy encrustred fetish sculpture with cowrie shells for eyes; fifferent fetish materials like bood, textiles, fabric, wood, placed on a circular plinth.
Dialog fom the person from whome we purchased this sculpture. Question: "If I want to stop smoking, this fetish will help me?" Answer: "Each day he wants a cigarette and each second daa a gin. This is the afford you have to do, if he should work for you..and than you will not smoke cigarettes anymore. The fetish will do this for you!"
400 - 500,- Euro
Height: 36 cm
Weight: 1,2 kg |
photo: tribalartforum.com/ identification no. DSC03589.jpg |
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