Three-faced Fang Okak statue, on a basket, Cameroon, c. 1970

Byeri reliquary figures are undoubtedly the most mysterious and emblematic of AFRICANO art. The Byeri cult (ancestor cult) was practiced in all Fang villages, both in southern Cameroon, Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. Among the Fang, the Byeri are associated with the cult of ancestors and more specifically with the reliquaries dedicated to them. The Byeri refers both to the cult and to the related objects. Height: 43 cm Reproduced: Catalogue “Africa Babel: the Art of a Continent”, p.- 99 left
 
Exhibitions:
2022-2024 Island of Fuerteventura “Art Africa: Ancestral Light”. Lighthouse of the Entallada. Cabildo of Fuerteventura.
2021-2022 Panama City. Government of Panama. “Art Africa: the spirit of the ancestors”. Ministry of Culture Headquarters. Casco Viejo.
2019-2020 Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Caja Canarias Foundation. “Africa-Babel: the art of a Continent”. Headquarters Plaza Patriotismo.
2013-2015 Museum of Art of Africa and Oceania (Madao). La Granja de San Ildefonso, Segovia.
2005 “Black Africa”, Leather Museum.
2004 “Black Africa”. Caixa Laietana Foundation, Barcelona. Main exhibition hall