Altar sculpture "shango" ·  Nigeria, Yoruba · ID: 3023160

Description

wood, blackish brown encrusted patina, conical-shaped base, crowned by a head with high tapering headgear, facial features because of strong encrustation nearly irrecognizable, traces of old insect caused damage and missing parts at the back of the base

The object Altar sculpture “shango” with the object ID 3023160 was last part of the auction 77th tribal art auction at June 28, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 379 achieved a sales price of EUR 100.

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