A couple of PramPram sculptures, Ghana, elongated body with tapering limbs, a spherical head, eyes, ears, navel and nipples are represented as indentations, the nose in the shape of a small ridge, the right leg is shortened, the sculpture is covered with a short shirt of brownish colour of incl. stand and certificate of origin and provenance, collected from Baba Sylla, incl. stand

"A great discovery were the so called "Prampram" sculptures, which are stylistically related to the Northern part of the small tribes in Northern Ghana and Togo, in particular the Moba. In my interview Baba Sylla, Accra, Ghana, isn´t speaking about a "tribe“, he named it "a great family", which seems to be incorrect under anthropological aspects, but it is a link to the fact, how small this "tribe" is or was in reality. May be this is the reason that these sculptures are unknown in literature. Only Karl-Heinz Krieg (short before his death) conducted unpublished researches with voice protocols close to the hut, where these sculptures were once part of a shrine. But a friend of him told me that Mr. Krieg had no possibility to access the hut."

Lit.: Dogbe, B.K. (1977). “The human form as a central theme in art” in Image (Journal of the College of Art).

Height: 44 cm / 42 cm without stand
Weight: 800 g / 890 g incl. stand

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A New York backyard in winter with the imagination of a snowman in
the form of a PramPram figure

Baba Sylla, Accra, Ghana, together with Aguibou Kamate,
my good spirit and chauffeur, behind Akan fertility puppets
and four rare PramPram figures.


Fieldphoto, Karl Heinz Krieg, around 2010, in front of the house of Baba Sylla with his collection.