Ancestor figure · Nigeria, Mambila · ID: 3051777
sold
EUR 2,500
Provenance
Ludwig Bretschneider, Munich, GermanyGerman Private Collection, Munich
Size
H: 54,5 cm
H: 21.5 inch
Description
wood, pigments, base
Gebauer collected a formally comparable figure in 1940, after it was retired from service at an ancestral altar. Its local name was “tadob”.
Comparing literature
Gebauer, Paul, Art of Cameroon, New York 1979, p. 317, M 28