http://www.gatigallery.co.uk/rss.php/feed/Latest Latest en-us http://www.gatigallery.co.uk/3/17/product164.php Our Price: £200.00. Mid 20 century.Ewe couple representing spirits, ancestors or the primordial couple, these figures were placed in shrines and treated with great respect. Through and wide range of style, scale, belief and the function the couples depited share a timeless, serene equality necessary to continuity of their societes. http://www.gatigallery.co.uk/3/6/product163.php Our Price: £105.00. late 20 century. Representing spirits, ancestors or the primordial couple, these figures were placed in shrines and treated with great respect. Through and wide range of style, scale, belief and the function the couples depited share a timeless, serene equality necessary to continuity of their societes. http://www.gatigallery.co.uk/3/17/product158.php Our Price: £200.00. Mid 20 century.Ewe couple representing spirits, ancestors or the primordial couple, these figures were placed in shrines and treated with great respect. Through and wide range of style, scale, belief and the function the couples depited share a timeless, serene equality necessary to continuity of their societes. http://www.gatigallery.co.uk/3/17/product159.php Our Price: £200.00. Mid 20 century.Ewe couple representing spirits, ancestors or the primordial couple, these figures were placed in shrines and treated with great respect. Through and wide range of style, scale, belief and the function the couples depited share a timeless, serene equality necessary to continuity of their societes. http://www.gatigallery.co.uk/3/8/product154.php Our Price: £70.00. Left on photoIkat dyed decoration from the town of Igara near Okene.This cloth worn by married women on ceremonial occasions. It is in excellent condition and probably circa 1950s-60s. http://www.gatigallery.co.uk/3/8/product155.php Our Price: £50.00. Right on photoIkat dyed decoration from the town of Igara near Okene.This cloth worn by married women on ceremonial occasions. It is in excellent condition and probably circa 1950s-60s. http://www.gatigallery.co.uk/3/6/product152.php Our Price: £85.00. Late 20 cent.Teke artists carved figures predominantly surrounded by fetish material, known as bilongo.These figures protect and assist the Teke and, if a fetish succefully demonstrates its power, its owner may detach its Bilongo, break it into several pieces and insert fragments into other figures. He will then sell the new figures to neighbouring families, leaving the original statue with an emaciated body.   http://www.gatigallery.co.uk/3/6/product153.php Our Price: £90.00. Tabwa double Fetish figure.These figures were placed on dedicated shrines. Statues of dead chiefs and fetishes were usually covered with an oily patina, the result of continuous libations. Rare carvings of one figure carrying another were used during inauguration ceremonies.  http://www.gatigallery.co.uk/3/11/product146.php Our Price: £250.00. Circa early 20th century.Bariba are majority population in the ethnically diverse Borgou Province of North Western Republic of Benin.The Pottery was central to the domestic life of the Bariba people. Women made a variety of vessels for a munber of uses; for household and ritual use, for ceremonial use by spirit mediums, for the preparation or storage of traditional medicines and making offerings to spirits and ancestors. The snakes, crocodiles, and lizards that embelish have an improvisational quality that is akin to the immediacy of gesture drawing. http://www.gatigallery.co.uk/3/11/product147.php Our Price: £250.00. Circa early 20th century.Bariba are majority population in the ethnically diverse Borgou Province of North Western Republic of Benin.The Pottery was central to the domestic life of the Bariba people. Women made a variety of vessels for a munber of uses; for household and ritual use, for ceremonial use by spirit mediums, for the preparation or storage of traditional medicines and making offerings to spirits and ancestors. The snakes, crocodiles, and lizards that embelish have an improvisational quality that is akin to the immediacy of gesture drawing.