細節
STATUETTE KEAKA
KEAKA HEALING FIGURE
Cameroun
Hauteur: 52.1 cm. (20½ in.)
來源
Collection Harry A. Franklin, Los Angeles, vers 1960
Sotheby's, New York,The Harry A. Franklin Collection of African Art, 21 avril 1990, lot 155
Richard Faletti, Chicago
Offerte par The Faletti Family Collection à l'Art Institute of Chicago en 2006 (inv.2006.114)
出版
Northern T.,Expressions of Cameroon Art: The Franklin Collection, 1986, p. 72, fig. 68.
Nooter, M., Roberts, A., A Sense of Wonder: African Art from the Faletti Family Collection, 1997, p. 110, cat. 52.
展覽
Expressions of Cameroon Art: The Franklin Collection
-Los Angeles, County Museum of Natural History, 1er février - 15 novembre 1986
-Baltimore, Museum of Art, 1er juin - 6 septembre 1987
-Hanover, N.H., Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 5 octobre 1987- 3 janvier 1988
-Dayton, Ohio, The Dayton Art Institute
-Flint, Michigan, Flint Institute of Arts
-Palo Alto, California, Palo Alto Cultural Center
A Sense of Wonder: African Art from the Faletti Family Collection
-Phoenix, Phoenix Art Museum, 13 décembre 1997 - 8 février 1998, cat. 52 -Chicago, The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, 14 mai - 28 juin 1998
-Urbana-Champaign, Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 18 septembre - 1er novembre 1998
-Davenport Museum of Art, 18 avril - 13 juin 1999
-Boise, Boise Art Museum, 26 février - 7 mai 2000
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更多詳情
The Keaka are a small group, and figures of the quality of the Franklin-Faletti example are rare. What we know of these figures come chiefly from fieldwork done by Hans-Joachim Koloss. He notes that these are power figures called enok ateng, or fighting alone, created and anointed to defend against malevolent forces or witchcraft. The healer who commissioned a new figure from a local carver instructed: 'it must be straight and have natural proportions, and it must have eyes and ears to see and hear. It need not be beautiful, instead it should be fearsome' (Koloss in Salmons 1986: 75). Cf. Utotombo. Kunst uit Zwart-Afrika in Belgisch prive-bezit", by de Heusch (Luc) et al., Brussels, 1988:184, #127, for a related figure.