{"id":7220,"date":"2014-11-06T12:58:13","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T12:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/?product=fang-sculpture-seated-figure-red-polychromed"},"modified":"2014-11-06T12:58:13","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T12:58:13","slug":"fang-sculpture-seated-figure-red-polychromed","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/catalog\/fang-sculpture-seated-figure-red-polychromed\/","title":{"rendered":"Fang Sculpture: Seated figure, red polychromed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sculture is approx. 11&#8243; tall, seated figure has excellent details and brightly painted.<\/p>\n<p><\/br>The people that are called \u201cFang\u201d in the geographic or ethnographic literature number 800,000 and constitute a vast mosaic of village communities,<br \/>\nestablished in a large zone of Atlantic equatorial Africa comprising Cameroon, continental equatorial Guinea and nearly the whole north of Gabon, on the<br \/>\nright bank of the Ogowe River. Historically the Fang were itinerant, and it is relatively recently that they have settled into this broad area. The migratory<br \/>\nexistence of the Fang prohibited the creation of ancestral shrines at gravesites. Instead, the remains of the important dead, in the form of the skull and<br \/>\nother bones, were carried from place to place in a cylindrical bark box. The great rain forest region where the Fang settled is a plateau of middle altitude,<br \/>\ncut by innumerable waters with falls and rapids rendering navigation for the most part impossible, and with a climate typically equatorial. Fang are<br \/>\nprincipally hunters but also agriculturists. Their social structure is based on a clan, a group of individuals with a common ancestor, and on the family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sculture is approx. 11&#8243; tall, seated figure has excellent details and brightly painted. The people that are called \u201cFang\u201d in the geographic or ethnographic literature number 800,000 and constitute a vast mosaic of village communities, established in a large zone of Atlantic equatorial Africa comprising Cameroon, continental equatorial Guinea and nearly the whole north of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[49],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-7220","product","type-product","status-publish","product_cat-african-art","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/7220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=7220"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=7220"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=7220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}