Fon Bocio Fetish

Fon Bocio Fetish. African. Size: 10" x 3" x 2.25" (25 x 8 x 6 cm). Provenance: Howard Nowes Gallery, NY.

A Bocio double image set into a Asen ritual staff, Fon peoples, Togo / Dahomey, West Africa. featuring a pair of carved spirit idols set into a ritual Asen staff, which were created to honor ancestor

A carved wooden post like sculpture with a anthropomorphic effigy on top and signs that it was buried in the ground for some time. Such posts would be markers for sacred areas and used to protect cros

A Tall carved wooden idol with fetish bundles, shells and red cloth attached. Such works, known as bocio, are prescribed by Fon priests and diviners for such purposes as influencing the weather, detec

Fon Fetish figure, Likely 19th c., Benin, carved wood, wrapped cloth, the surface encrusted with ceremonial projections, on lacquered wood pedestal, 18"h x 8"w x 5"d (fetish), 20"h (total) Provenance:

Benin, 9", mixed media, ex collection Marylin Houlberg, a leading expert on the art of Haitian voodoo, Professor Emeritus of Art History at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Please note that

Wood, traces of ceremonial projections. Fon, Dahomey, Benin. 46x22cm

A Fon bocio wood sculpture, literally an empowered object which is related to Vodun or Voodoo, a religious belief in mysterious forces that govern the world and the lives of those who reside in it. Vo

African Fon Skeleton Fetish, Togo. Carved wood and pigment. Size: 34.5'' x 6'' x 7'' (88 x 15 x 18 cm).

Fon Peoples, fetish power figure, likely 20th c., Benin, carved wood, wrapped cloth, cowry shell, gourd, sheet metal, with encrusted surface, approx. 10"h x 6"dia Provenance: Property from the Estate

A Carved wooden Vodun effigy with various magic regalia attached and bound to a shrine fetish with encrusted surface and signs of ritual use. Fon peoples, Togo/Dahomey, West Africa. The sculpture meas

A ritual implement made from an animal horn and embellished with a carved wooden spirit idol bound to the horn with textiles and natural fibers, beads, bones and organic material , covered in blood sa

Figur, "bochio" Fon, Benin Mit Sockel / with base Holz, Fetischmaterial. H 26,5 cm. Provenienz: Nachlass René David (1928-2015), Zürich. Ausgestellt: Musée International du Golfe de Guinée, Togo (

A very uncommon pair of Male & female magic fetish from the Fon (or related ethnic group) Togo, Africa. A Striking set of carved wooden idols with a remarkable "upward gaze" giving the pair a wonderfu

Figur, "bochio" Fon, Benin Mit Sockel / with base Holz, Eisen. H 34 cm. Provenienz: Gérald Minkoff (1937-2009) und Muriel Olesen (1948-2020), Genf. bochio-Schutzfiguren sind Verkörperungen v

African Fon Voodoo Fetish Spirit Bottle, Togo. African Fon Voodoo Fetish Spirit Bottle, TogoThe Fetish bottle has two carved wooden idols bound to a bottle, with cowrie shells, pendant animal tail hai

A older carved wooden male shrine idol shown playing a flute and holding an exaggerated erect phallus hidden under a textile loin cloth. Fon peoples, Togo or Dahomey, West Africa. The figure measures

Two Large Old African Fon Phallic Fetishes. Carved wood; two with stands. Rich patina. Together with a third wooden phallus. Provenance: Collection of Allan Stone, New York. Sizes ranging from: 7'' x

A group of 6 African fetish objects. 20th century. ++Fon style fetish figure, Republic of Benin, 6 1/2"h x 2"w x 3 1/2"d. ++ Fon style fetish figure, Republic of Benin. ++ African fetish material , 5"

A large and heavily embellished wooden female effigy with a large medicine bottle adhered to the front and two crocodile carvings attached to her form with red cloth, animal horns filled with magic in

Carved wooden staff or cane that was apparently used for some time as a fetish object on a shrine, and receiving multiple layers of organic materials as offerings. Fon peoples, Togo/Dahomey west Afric

A carved wooden shrine idol embellished with seeds and shells, bells and iron spikes in the ears,mouth and top of the head. Fon or related ethnic group, Togo or Dahomey, West Africa. The Idol measures

A heavily encrusted shrine fetish covered in sacrificial blood and organic matter. Stylized anthropomorphic form with ancestor spirit face, mask like forms with horns on the sides, shells and other ob

A highly stylized carved wooden magic fetish from a Vodun shrine. The idol features an anthropomorphic figure surrounded by animal horns, shells, metal implements and other regalia, esoteric objects f