Three-Headed Fon Bocio

Depicting a three-headed female, this eccentric sculpture is a fetish object from the Fon people of Benin. Known as bocio, these fetish objects of the Fon are consecrated objects used for ritual purposes by diviners and priests as symbols of protection and good fortune. The layered, multi-textured patina of the work is in part the result of added materials used during the libation ceremony. Bocio are formidable extensions of one’s spiritual self, capable of prevailing over the evils of the material world as they straddle the human and mystical realms. The striking abstraction of this bocio exemplifies the dual response to fetishes: intimidation and admiration.

7″

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