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Ada - figures

Like Ibeji few decades ago, and as Venavi pochissmo up to the weather, this type of objects are still considered virtually outside the "Aesthetic" of the arts of Africa, at least in their "institutionalization" in museums and collections in the West. Very common in the villages of the border between Togo and Ghana, these little statuettes were awarded to the first Konkomba and now more frequently to Ada, and Adan, there are few references on the texts of art or anthropology but is in preparation a exhibition, with its publication dedicated specifically to the production of the Volta Region (populations Ada, Anlo-Ewe, Krobo and Ning) by the Centre of African Archaeology of Milan, which will hopefully make a significant contribution to make things clearer.

For now, the few texts mentioning these figurines will give confusing and contradictory information. The first mention is in the text of African sculpture segy Ladislas (1958) in which two statuettes of this type are given as source "of Black Volta Region": the guy with the shovel to the face and without an arm (which I do not possess) is said to represent an evil spirit, Ariza, while the type with one arm raised to hold a container held above the head (in my figurines is red in color) is said to represent the spirit of water, Arbor. The catalog of the collections dell'Afrika Museum in Berg en Dal, Forms of Wonderment, but attributes them to Konkomba, following two articles in German anthropology (1963rd Froelich and Hanh 1991), but none can explain the function and meaning. The German magazine

anthropology Tribus (# 18, August 1969) Dzag Cudjoe in "Ewe Sculpture in the Linden-Museum" describes two examples (the first of which type of container with a raised arm on head and the second is like the second from the left in the picture I present here) called "Aklama figures" and recalls that the original cataloging of German museum describes them as "idols families from nearby Keta. Recall that Keta is a village on the sea coast of Ghana close to the border with Togo, a few kilometers from Lomé.

not having appeared in more specialized studies and not appearing at international auctions, in which a certain so "institutionalized" the status of an object, the fact that today these figurines are almost uniquely appealed as Ada is therefore a little mystery.

Like many similar objects - for example the already mentioned Venavi - the rest of their average quality is low and it is not easy to find antiques, carved in wood because they are also very light and very little longevity. The interest lies in the lines and volumes in the highly stylized and geometric, obtained in polychrome woods of different colors and with various pigments, mainly red, black and white striped applied and made "flat", almost two-dimensional human body or animal.

The five samples that show in this picture are high from 15 to 23 cm. and, second from the left side showing some signs of age, are fairly recent production.

Bibliography:

1) African sculpture

Ladislas segy - Dover Publications, New York, 1958

2) Forms of Wonderment. The History and Collections of the Afrika Museum Berg en Dal.

Vol.1 AA.VV. - Afrika Museum, Berg en Dal, 2002

3) Ewe Sculpture in the Linden-Museum

Dzag Cudjoe in Tribus - Veröffentlichungen des Linden-Museums , # 18, August 1969, Stuttgart, 1969