GothamGallery African Tribal Art - Sierra Leone Kissi Pompo Stone Figure - P

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Outstanding Sierra Leone Kissi Pombo Figure
Inches:                     Height: 5.5 Inches
Centimeters:           Height: 14 Centimeters
Measurements Sculpture Only
Material:                 Stone
Estimated Age:       13th -17th Century
Condition:               Fair - Good
Remarks:                Stylized stone carving ancient African art aged surface
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CONDITION
Surface deterioration, chips and scrapes, worn areas, overall condition fair to good. Thank you and please view my other items.
BACKGROUND
The Kissi inhabit a bordering region of Guinea and Sierra Leone. Essentially farmers, daily life is organized around the cultivation of rice, in addition to manioc and cotton. Villages of about 150 people are situated in clearings. The Kissi revere soapstone anthropomorphic carvings, which are found in fields and rivers in the area centered on Sewa and Mano rivers. The Kissi call them Pombo, which mean "the deceased". These statues were the abodes of the spirits of their ancestors. In order to find out which ancestor a statue represented, a man’s dreams were analyzed with the help of the diviner. At festivities the statue was wrapped in cotton upon which sacrificial blood had been poured. The owner (the guardian of the statue) placed it on the family altar; hence it was thought to be the family’s protector against sickness. It was also consulted before a new undertaking was planned. The statues were believed to have supernatural power.
Painter Fred Uhlman words - Most of the artists I admired, Picasso, Modigliani, Deraini, to mention only a few, had collected African art and had been profoundly influenced by it. Shortly afterwards I bought the Baule Fetish and the Baule bobbin which are still two of the finest pieces in my collection. It is easy to see why I bought them and why from that moment I have never stopped collecting. The head of the bobbin or heddle - pulley which is after all only a functional object for the purpose of weaving seemed to me then and today as beautiful as a Greek goddess. The fetish moved me as deeply as the bobbin by its silent tragic dignity and its air of profound meditation.
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