Axe · Nigeria, Tiv · ID: 3036866
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Provenance
Gallery L’Accrosonge, Paris, FranceSize
H: 44 cm
H: 17.3 inch
Description
brass, metal, crowned by a human head with projecting forehead crest, bent nose and big funnel-shaped ears, the blade emerging from the mouth as usual, min. dam., traces of corrosion, base
The object Axe with the object ID 3036866 was last part of the auction 77th tribal art auction at June 28, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 328.
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Comparing literature
Yale Archive No. 0100618 (comparable object)