An Adamawa healing sculpture, of simple square and hollow shape, with a large rounded opening at the center of one side, two small indentations above, the body of this object is nicely decorated with geometric patters; signs of ritual use.

"After a ritual specialist determined the cause of a disease, the patient was given a newly modelled vessel, into which the disease was transferred. Such pots, which tend to embody the symptoms described, are remarkable for their highly expressive and imaginative forms." Source Brooklyn Museum, Vessel for Kwandalha Divination.

"The art of manufacturing and the knowledge of its use is reserved for only a few old people today; the young generation, brought up by missionaries, often no longer even know of their existence", Karl-Ferdinand Schaedler, Erde und Erz, S. 271.

Lit.: Karl-Ferdinand Schaedler, Erde und Erz. 2500 Jahre Afrikanische Ku.

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Height: 14 cm
Weight: 860 g