METAL COUPLES

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ASANTE Metal
Couple 1
5"x 6", $200

DOGON
METAL
COUPLES

FON, Metal Couple 1
3.5x5", $200

DAN Metal
Couple 2, $150

LOBI, Metal Couple 2
2.25"x3.5", $100

The couples below have been sold and are left here for educational and research purposes.

LOBI Metal
Couple 1
SOLD

DAN Metal
Couple 1
SOLD

DAN
GREBO
Figures,SOLD

Usually representing spirits, ancestors or the primordial couple, these figures were placed in shrines and treated with great respect. Through a wide range of style, scale, belief and function the couples depicted share a timeless, serene equality necessary to the continuity of their societies. Traditionally, most of the couples are two freestanding figures, conceived as a unit, and posed frontally, symmetrically, in formal postures and of equal size.

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