Ethnic Kouyou
\nCountry Congo
\nMaterial wood, pigmentation
\nHeight 187 cm – 160 cm – 158 cm
\nWeight 20 kg – 10.9 kg – 11.8 kg<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The mythical ancestors, totemic figures:
\n– father, with three identical faces.
\n– mother, with arms attached to the bust and scarifications. This statue wears a necklace, and a figure above her head.
\n– young initiated figure, resting on a head with double face, with arms attached to the bust and scarifications. This statue wears a necklace, and a bird above his head.<\/p>\n
Polychrome red orange and black patina. Mid XX\u00b0.<\/p>\n
Two totemic clans once formed the Kouyou ethnic group, a neighbouring group of the Punu in the Republic of Congo, west that of the panther and in the east that of the snake. A secret male association, Ottot\u00e9, played an important political role in the appointment of chiefs. The initiation of young men of a serpent God Ebongo is represented in the form of a head. The Kebekebe dances, which accompanied the ceremony, reactivated the successive stages of creation. The panther clan had a drum as its emblem. For its part, the snake had carved heads above his head.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":425,"template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[45,46],"product_tag":[43],"class_list":{"0":"post-424","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-african-art","7":"product_cat-congo","8":"product_tag-statues","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dune-art-jewelry.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dune-art-jewelry.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dune-art-jewelry.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dune-art-jewelry.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dune-art-jewelry.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dune-art-jewelry.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dune-art-jewelry.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}