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Six Akan terracotta heads, heavy encrusted and used as fetish objects, fine elaborated fascial features an a drop-like base, covered with fetish material like chicken feathers, kaolin and encrusted blood. These sculptures, which have similarity withthe Akan funeral heads were used on house-altars . All sculptures came from the place of ritual use from the Kumashi region of Ghana.

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Height: 19 cm
Weight: 650 g

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