At his event, each Fon had his own statue made, as well as that of the wife who had given him her first child. This statue is not an ancestral cult, it is commemorative. The shape is ample, the realism dynamic, the silhouette heavily balanced on spread legs. COUNTRY Origin: CAMEROON COMPOSITION: Hard wood APPROXIMATE
Tag: Bamun art
royal art at the center of African art. this type of representation pays homage to the warrior sultan NJOYA who at the end of the 19th century created the foundations of the Bamoun state in a modernist vision. he endowed the Bamuns with a scripture as well as a real administration; finally, he created a