This type of sculpture embodies founding ancestors or clan chiefs, many of them being depicted kneeling. The mabinda motif was engraved on the forehead from a very young age. Granular surface coated with white pigments. Within the "Shira" group, the Lumbu, Loumbu, Balumbu, settled on the coastal part of Gabon, and in the Republic of Congo, are settled in the middle Ogooue. The Punu settled in the southwest of Gabon following conflicts with their Fang neighbors. The statues are linked, as in many other ethnic groups, to funeral rituals, initiation rites, ancestor worship, but also to specific magical rites that are supposed to allow sorcerers to be discovered.
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