"Fetish Statue Colon Cyclist Ashanti Ghana"
Ashanti settler statue, remains of polychromy, beginning of the last century, beautiful patina, height 22.5. According to the book Statues Colons by Werewere-Liking, new African editions 1987. In the 30s/40s these statuettes were called "African photos" by local antique dealers. Concerning their ritual use or not, the testimonies are very diverse: statues of domestic altars, prestige pieces, ordered by blacks or whites, voodoo use in Benin, fetish... They have today become mass products, intended to fill the stalls of airport stalls, souvenir gift that the white man leaving Africa will take home. But a few rare, slightly old pieces remain, testimony to a past in decline. 
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