Sculpture

Male. "Cynocephalus". Wood colored black except eyeballs and teeth; inside of mouth and interstices of teeth, red. Tips of fingers of both hands almost touching on front of body.

GBEKRE, baboon-god. See Delafosse, L'Anthropologie, XI (1900), pp. 442, 443, 556. Cf. notes on AF 5117.

Gbekre, the Baboon-god, is the son of the Sky-god, Nyamye, and brother of the Ox-god, Kaka-gwye. He gives good advice to his votaries in distress and brings disaster on their enemies. He chastises guilty souls in the spirit-world presided over by his father. His hands are joined to support a plate for offerings, which usually consists of an egg.