The Fon couples below have been SOLD and are left here for
reference and educational purposes.
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Photographs © Tim Hamill
FON, COUPLES, Republic of Benin
Usually representing spirits, ancestors or the primordial couple, African couple figures were placed in shrines and treated with great respect. Through a wide range of style, scale, belief and function the couples depicted share a timeless, serene equality necessary to the continuity of their societies. Traditionally, most of the couples are two freestanding figures, conceived as a unit, and posed frontally, symmetrically, in formal postures and of equal size.
These Fon couples are fetish-like combinations with similarities to the more common doll-like single figures 0f the Ewe and Yoruba peoples.
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