These heads, known as Bieri, were attached to bark boxes containing the skulls and bones of ancestors, both to guard the relics and as a focus for prayers, complaints and sacrifices, Some scholars believe they are an early form from which the full figure sculptures were developed. Gabon, Equatorial Africa. Fang. 19th 20th c Gabon.

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