Ex-French collection of African art African fetish depicting a gorilla. The head is composed of an authentic animal skull, which extends at the top with a hollowed-out bone for a magical charge. This animal statue has a locally abraded dark gray patina and clay deposits. Losses and cracks from desiccation. The Boulou, an ethnic group of the Fang group, live in Cameroon, on the border of Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Congo, on a vast plateau in the equatorial forest near the Bakwele whose customs and traditions are comparable. Like the Fang of South Cameroon with their white masks of justice, the Boulou have also used the Ngil ritual to counter witchcraft and poisoning. Future initiates, following their integration into the secret society, identify with the Ngi, a fierce emblematic gorilla. The Ngil society, which notably carried out executions of sorcerers, was banned by the colonial administration. Not obligatory but reserved for some, initiation into the ngil was very expensive. It was only after having put on their mask and accessories that the initiates became "children of the ngil". The Boulou believe in the spirits of the ancestors, bekôn, whose skulls were preserved.
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