Magical Figures (Gri Gri or Fetish)

wood, cloth, pigment, cowrie shells, iron, with crusty sacrificial patina

height: 

Ewe people (Ghana/Togo) or Fon people (benin)

20^th century

provenance:  collected in Burkina Faso by Jack Daulton

Figures of this type are used in the Vodoun belief systems of Coastal West Africa.