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Description : Akan, Ghana, L: 11 1/2Of typical form, the group of figures covered in thick gold foil. Some minor losses, however overall excellent condition.Comments: This, object, called, poma akyi would have served as the finial of a staff of a principal counselor and spokesman, Okyeame, for a paramount chief, they are used by the Ashanti and the Akan in general as indirect communication to clientele. Every chief had two or more staffs in reference to a variety of social and political situations matched by relevant messages on the finial. This wooden object covered with gold-leaf depicts a seated noble who points to his eye with his index finger and is confronted by three smaller figures who stand before an animal. The finger to eye gesture refers to the proverb:
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