 The territory covered by the Fang ethnic group, formerly called the Pahuins, is vast: it extends from the region of Yaounde in Cameroon to the Ogoou6 River in Gabon and includes equatorial Guinea. Since the seventeenth century, these tribes have traveled hundreds of kilometers through the heart of the forest, moving southwest. The boundaries between styles are not absolute but, thanks to field studies done between 1895 and 1910, the origins of reliquaries that came to Europe relatively early have been more or less identified: in fact, "Pahuin idols" are found in the earliest collections of Paul Guillaume, Jacob Epstein, Andri6 Derain, Felix F6n6on, and others… Learn
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