Anthropomorphic figure associated with ancestor worship, carved in dense wood. Adorned with copper sheets offering a variety of fine decorative motifs evoking body marks and tribal paintings, it also sports a loincloth made of bells. The flat face has metal-rimmed hollow pupils and small parallel teeth. The posture would be one of those accompanying ceremonial dances. Desication cracks, kaolin residues, erosions. The Mbete, Ambete, form a tribe of Gabon, on the border of the Middle Congo, close to the Obamba and the Pounou, whose history has been marked by a long-term conflict against the Teke. They do not have a centralized political organization, practice ancestor worship without reliquary boxes, their statues frequently comprising a cavity fitted out for this purpose.
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