Comb · Ghana, Ashanti · ID: 3041143
sold
EUR 600
Provenance
Rolf Christoph Lutz (1930-2016), Gernsbach, GermanyLutz worked as medical doctor for the Basler Mission in Bawku, Agogo and Bechem in Ghana from 1958 to 1967.
Born in 1930 in Kaying, South China where his parents already worked for the Basel Mission, after his studies he knew that he would like to work as a missionary doctor as did his father. After graduation, he decided to choose Ghana. Beginning in 1958 he worked with his wife Eva-Maria, in a hospital in Bawku in the north of the country, near the border with Burkina Faso, as well as in Agogo and Bechem. In 1967, he returned with his family to Germany.
Size
H: 26 cm
H: 10.2 inch
Description
wood, partly encrusted black patina, seven teeth, surmounted by an anthropomorphic head with open-worked headgear, min. dam., missing parts (two teeth), slight traces of usage
The object Comb with the object ID 3041143 was last part of the auction 84th Tribal Art Auction at November 5, 2016 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 233 achieved a sales price of EUR 600.
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