Beautiful statue reliquary Mbété or Ambété. This type of statue has normaly a dorsal cavity in which were placed magic substances.

But this one does not have this characteristic.

Statue old, marks on the body making seen the wood and glare on the left part of the head, low of the hairstyle...

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Socle

+/- 50

Gabon

Mbete

85 x 20

8.740

-- €