A Tribally Used Moba Fetisher Apron – Tschitcheri – Northern Ghana – Rare Item
A Tribally Used Moba Fetisher Apron – Tschitcheri – Northern Ghana – Rare Item
A Tribally Used Moba Fetisher Apron – Tschitcheri – Northern Ghana – Rare Item
A Tribally Used Moba Fetisher Apron – Tschitcheri – Northern Ghana – Rare Item
A Tribally Used Moba Fetisher Apron – Tschitcheri – Northern Ghana – Rare Item
A Tribally Used Moba Fetisher Apron – Tschitcheri – Northern Ghana – Rare Item

A Tribally Used Moba Fetisher Apron – Tschitcheri – Northern Ghana – Rare Item

Old Berber Forged Iron Key – Morocco

350,00€

Coupled on a piece of fabric, onto which are different tools (2 Tschitcheri figures, mirror, bones, herbs, shells, metal tools, pieces of raffia); covered in brownish sacrificial patina. Cm. 30,5 x cm. 22,0 (12.01″ x 8.66″). Grams 577,6 (20.37 oz.)

There are three types of Tschitcheri: Yendu, the smallest, Bawoong, the medium sized and Skawa, the largest of this type. Carving these figures is considered difficult and is only done by a master carver.

Lit.: Erwin Melchardt: Moba, Togo: an ancestral and protective figure, ‘tchitcheri’. Schädler: Encyclopedia of African Art and Culture.

m23

Availability: 1 in stock Categories: , Tag:

Additional information

Weight850 g