Fetish Foumbam
Bamileke · Cameroon
Reference: FET-23
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- Height
- 17 cm
- Material
- Hippopotamus bone
Couple of fetishes from the Fumban region in western Cameroon. Made of hippopotamus bone, sometimes buffalo, you are destined to invoke rain and also to desire…
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Full original description
Couple of fetishes from the Fumban region in western Cameroon. Made of hippopotamus bone, sometimes buffalo, you are destined to invoke rain and also to desire fertility for the pregnant woman, passing the figurines above her belly.
Further technical information
- Width
- 3 cm
- Attributed period
- Mid-century XX or last third
Details transcribed from the original catalogue; they are not a recent physical inspection.
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Cameroon. The country associated with the catalog is shown, not the current location of the piece.
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