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A Chamba Spike Idol
A Chamba Spike Idol
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A well handled wooden figure on hand hammered iron spike used for insertion into the ground. Such spike figures provided cult practitioners with a point of address, so that cultic power might be disposed to react favorably to entreaties accompanied by offerings, this figure would have been placed either in cults or ancestral shrines. The figure on its custom stand measures 21.5 inches tall. Chamba peoples, Nigeria, Africa.
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