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Avery Research Center at the College of Charleston
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Date
1999
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Africa, Sub-Saharan, Africa, West, Gabon
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Hongwe (African people), Kota (African people), Fang (African people), Art, Gabon
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Date:
1900 and 1999
Description:
A funerary statuette common among the Hongwe (Mahongwe), Kota (Bakota), and Fang people of Gabon. The statue is placed upon a box containing the remains of an ancestor and acts as the guardian of the reliquaries.