This kind of figure had mnemonic funtion as the assisted in telling ancestors stories or the depiction of provebs. Height : 29x8cm Estimated age : Early 20th Century Material : wood Private Collections
These large sculpture come from the Bongo people of southern Sudan , large sculpted funerary or memorial were placed above tombs , among the bongo large scuptures reconized and honore male elites , warrios , chiefs or locally significants personnages , carved head were at the best idealised representation of…