Early voltaic bronze bracelet with two figures

Early voltaic bronze bracelet with two figures

Cm. 11 x 11

Tangba (Taneka) couple

Tangba (Taneka) - Benin border Togo
Male and Female copule of ritual objects (fetishes? twin figures? Dance implements?)
Wood, leather, cowries.

In situ photo of a female - female couple

Tangba (Taneka) area

Gan bronze pendant - snake

7 cm.

Kukango bronze figures

Kulango bronze figures
Age: before 1825
2,5 - 5 cm

Lega bwami hats

Dan mask "Gagon"

Dan mask "Gagon", 
22,5 cm

Prov.: Charles Hug (1899-1979) collection (acquired in Paris between 1929 and 1932); Lempertz Auction Bruxelles 31 Jan. 2018 (lot.111)

Collected before 1932.

Exhibitions:              

St.Gallen Industrie-und Gewerbemuseum, "Transozeanische und Negerkunst aus St.Galler Privatbesitz", May/June 1933  

Rietberg Museum, Zurich, "Masken der Wè und Dan – Elfenbeinküste", 1997 

Published :               

Homberger, L., Masken der Wè und Dan - Elfenbeinküste, Zurich,                                                1997, p.77, n°46. 

The swiss painter Charles Hug (1899-1979) selfportrait

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