Fang - 200351 - Old Tribal used African 3-Eyes Mask from the Fang - Gabon. - Verkocht

Tribal used African Ngil 3-Eyes mask from the Fang, Gabon. 

Hand carved from a single piece of wood with a natural dark blue color

Height: 30 cm.

Taxatiewaarde:  175 - 200 euro.

Stand not included. You can buy the professional stand for 29.95 euro

The people that are called “Fang” in the geographic or ethnographic literature number 800,000 and constitute a vast mosaic of village communities, established in a large zone of Atlantic equatorial Africa comprising Cameroon, continental equatorial Guinea and nearly the whole north of Gabon, on the right bank of the Ogowe River. Historically the Fang were itinerant, and it is relatively receiiiii that they have settled into this broad area. The migratory existence of the Fang prohibited the creation of ancestral shrines at gravesites. Instead, the remains of the important dead, in the form of the skull and other bones, were carried from place to place in a cylindrical bark box. The great rain forest region where the Fang settled is a plateau of middle altitude, cut by innumerable waters with falls and rapids rendering navigation for the most part impossible, and with a climate typically equatorial. Fang are principally hunters but also agriculturists. Their social structure is based on a clan, a group of individuals with a common ancestor, and on the family.