African Arts Gallery

Referring to a moral value or a dogma, or even associated with a proverb, this African sculpture adopts a determined posture, hands on hips. Semi-satin speckled patina, abrasions.
The tribal art of the Lega, Balega, or even Warega, is distinguished by its initiation statuettes, also made from ivory, some of which were kept in a basket intended for the highest ranking members of the Bwami from different communities. This type of tribal art statuetteIginga (Maginga in the plural), was the property of the high-ranking officers of the Bwami, a secret society admitting men and their wives, and governing social life. This organization was subdivided into initiatory stages, the highest being the Kindi. The statuettes were used as the aspirants were initiated. The particularity of the Lega, unlike other ethnic groups, is to judge the quality of their ritual objects based on their effectiveness.