Ancestor figure
Nigeria, Mambila
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”.