ASANTE STYLE COUPLE 1, Ghana
Photographs © Tim Hamill
ASANTE STYLE COUPLE 1, 5"x 6", $200, SOLD, Ghana
This metal objects was probably made to be sold.
Cast figures like these expressed status and prestige, both to the subjects,
an ancestral family, and to the owners. They would bring honor to the ancestors
and the owner of the sculptures.
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