Double-headed voodoo stake statuette, an important feature that targets the individual and his double who would return after his death, to ensure that he does not come back to haunt the spell seeker. Two cleats or pins are driven into the lower abdomen and throat to cause sterility or sexual dysfunction, and into the throat to block speech or create aphasia in the opponent targeted here. In the abdomen or the bust, it is the breath, the very life that was targeted. An imposing fetish package also adorns this statuette of bewitchment or control. To be effective, the existence of this type of bewitchment object obviously had to be revealed and known to the enemy in question. Fon, Benin Wood, cord, bead, clay and other materials, sacrificial patina from use. H. 25 cm Provenance: Anne and Jacques Kerchache Collection Exhibition and Publication : VAUDOU exhibition at La Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris 2011, reproduced on page 64 of the catalog.