Tchamba figure

Tchamba figure (Nord Togo)
18 cm.
Old and eroded ritual figure from Tchamba people.


The intersting exhibition on Nord Togo statues held at the forthcoming Paris Tribal by a well known gallery made me remember the only Tchamba item I have in my collection: an old and very eroded little statuette I had from an english little dealer a lot of years ago.

Here it is.

Losso figure Koumea area

Another Losso figure from Koumea area: this one is 22,5 cm, thinner and "smaller" than the other example I already showed and it is probably older.
I had it from Sylvain Pette.

Here are a resume of the Lamba and Losso items in my collection, at the moment (click on the image to see the whole photo).

Update: The Swiss scholar Thomas Keller had put this statue and the other from the same hand in my collection in a paper on Lamba - Losso statuary.

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