A PramPram sculpture

A PramPram sculpture with a remarkable movement, without stand, heavy, hard wood, collected by Baba Sylla, Accra, Ghana.

Another great discovery was the so called "Prampram" sculptures, which are stylistically related to the Northern part of the small tribes in Northern Ghana and Togo, inparticular the Moba. In this video Baba Sylla, Accra, Ghana, isn´t speaking about a "tribe" he named it "a great family", which seems to be incorrect under athropological aspects, but it is a link to the fact, how small this "tribe" is/or was in reality. May be this is the reason that these sculptures are unknown in literature. Only Karl-Heinz Krieg made some years before his death unpublished researches with voice protocolls close to the hut, where these sculptures were once part of a shrine. But he had no possibility of access how a fried of Karl-Heinz Krieg told me, wolfgan-jaenicke.blogspot. read more

Height: 75 cm
Weight: 3,4 kg