Arpa Sanza
Bakongo · Central African Republic
Reference: CORD-2
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- Height
- 25 cm
- Material
- Wood, iron, bone.
There was God, and also the imagination, who was asleep in a corner of his head... One day, God said to the imagination: Ah, I'm bored!…
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Full original description
There was God, and also the imagination, who was asleep in a corner of his head... One day, God said to the imagination: Ah, I'm bored! ...Then the imagination said to God: Then make yourself a saint, and so when you touch her you won't get bored, you'll see how you don't get bored. “Really?” God said. “And you ask me if it is true?” the imagination answered, for if it is you who created me you must know that it is true! Then God made a saint and began to touch her. The first sound created the light, and the light was a sun that was caught up in the sky, from where it will never descend... And God kept playing, intoxicating himself with music to a point where he no longer saw what was happening around him. And every time I played a note, a human being was born! And that's how God populated the earth, with a saint.
Fred Hidalgo wrote this legend told to Francis Bebey, one night in Nairobi, Kenya, by a night watchman.
Further technical information
- Width
- 11 cm
- Attributed period
- Second half of the century XX
Details transcribed from the original catalogue; they are not a recent physical inspection.
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Central African Republic. The country associated with the catalog is shown, not the current location of the piece.
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