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Lot 182
93rd Tribal Art Auction

Anthropomorphic pseudo vessel "itinate"

Nigeria, Cham-Mwana
sold EUR 500
Size
H: 46 cm
H: 18.1 inch

Description

terracotta, ring-shaped base

These figurative terracotta vessels were probably made for fortune-telling, and curing diseases.

Comparing literature

Schädler, Karl-Ferdinand, Erde und Erz, München 1997, p. 271 f.
Africa

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