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…
The Bongo people are hunters and gatherers in south-west Sudan. Their artistic testimonia are funerary steles, which are erected about a year after the death of an important tribal member. With solemn ceremonies, large stone settings are piled up over the grave of the deceased, and such memorial figures are…