Cloth-wrapped figure
Tanzania, Mbugu
sold
EUR 1,400
Provenance
Marc Leo Felix, Brussels, Belgium (“FE 9021”)Private collection (1998)
Jens Jahn, Munich, Germany
Bruno Heimberg (1933-2023), Munich, Germany
Size
H: 22,5 cm
H: 8.9 inch
Description
wood, miniature glass beads, tightly sewn into two layers of fabric, which is soaked or smeared with magical material in many places, handwritten collection number ‘FE 9021’, base
Publications
Jahn, Jens (Hg.), "Tanzania, Meisterwerke afrikanischer Skuptur", München 1994, p. 186, ill. 89; Bacquart, Jean-Baptiste, "The Tribal Arts of Africa", London 1998, p. 216, ill. 2AHDRC: 0171863