Ancestor

The Ambete or Mbete are located on the borderline of Gabon with the Republic of the Congo. These reliquary guards are placed next to a basket containing the relics of the ancestors, whose cult practices, Figure of rough and solid appearance.

White face with straight strokes. The shoulders come out of the upper chest. White face, sign of mourning, and rest of the body with dark pigmentation. The contour of the face looks like a truncated rhombus on both ends and in which a face is inserted that looks like an inverted and truncated triangle. The hairstyle features on the top from front to back an embossed figure and in the form of an elongated rugby ball, with other concentric ones inside, while on the sides the lines forming the relief of the comb are "V" inverted. The arms start from the chest where the shoulders are located and the hands rest on the belly in a sign of peace, prominent navel and undisguised male attributes.