Hermaphrodite Figure

Hermaphrodite figure remarkable as it is evidenced by the fact of sitting on a stool and carrying a cane in his hand, a sign of authority. Hermaphrodite figures are frequent in African art to indicate that when the human person is born he is born with both attributes and is at the end of the first initiation when he chooses symbolically for one of both sexes, for the masculin by making circumcision and freeing himself from it par female or foreskin and for the feminine by releasing the moreculin part ao clitoris. Dark crusty patina, indicating that the statue has been the object of ritual libations.