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Detail of the Vessel of friendship, a gold model of a Chinese ship
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GABON

Figure of a man

2002-03

RCIN 95573

This is a modern interpretation of two types of reliquary guardian figures from Gabon; on the left the Kota-Obama people's mbulu-ngulu (image of the spirit of the dead), and on the right a Mahongwe reliquary guardian.

From the Ambassador of the Gabonese Republic to the United Kingdom, Alain Mensah-Zoguelet, 2003


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