Bakota people, Gabon reliquary; reliquary of the type that stood atop a bark box of ancestral bones, flat abstract head over a diamond representing a body in extreme stylization, very large example, made of wood with brass strips and sheets hammered over it, the exposed uncovered wood at front bottom and the entire back appears to have formerly had brass sheeting hammered over it, age uncertain, 31"h. Provenance: Southern California Estate