Tchitcherik
A Tchitcherik or Tchitcherik Sakwa (plural: Tchitcheri Sakab ) is a statue of the Moba in northern Togo and Ghana .
The Tchitcheri Sakab are wooden sculptures of various sizes (usually around a meter) that depict images of ancestors. The word sakab means "ancestor" in Moba language . They are planted in the ground, sometimes up to the groin, which explains why the legs are often eaten away by insects. The Tchitcheri are named after the name of the clan of ancestors they are supposed to honor. Only fortune tellers can order the controls of such a sculpture, they determine its size and gender. The tchitcheri are minimalist sculptures reminiscent of abstract art , a cylindrical trunk with straight arms and legs, and a round head and no neck.
Individual evidence
- ^ African Arts , Volume 20, 1986, p.54
- ↑ Alisa LaGamma, John Pemberton, Art and Oracle: African Art and Rituals of Divination , Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY), 2000, p.63
- ^ Frederick Lamp, See the Music, Hear the Dance: Rethinking African Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art , 2004, p.184
literature
- Dieter Gleisberg , Merkur & the Muses: Treasures of World Culture from Leipzig , 1989
- My Africa: the Fritz Koenig Collection , 2000
- Douglas Newton, African and Oceanic Art in Jerusalem: The Israel Museum , Muzeʼon Yiśraʼel (Jerusalem), 2001
- Annie Dupuis, Jacques Ivanoff, Ethnocentrisme et création , 2014
Web links
Commons : Tchitcherik - Collection of Images
