Dance staff "ogo elegba" for the "eshu" cult · Nigeria, Yoruba, Ibarapa / Egbado · ID: 3049992
sold
EUR 1,000
Provenance
Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, 6 May 1978, Lot 255Rudolf Leopold, Vienna, Austria
Size
H: 38 cm
H: 15.0 inch
Description
wood,
In the form of a kneeling female figure carrying two medicine containers, crowned by a bearded “eshu” head.
An almost identical work was offered as lot 254 together with the present “ogo elegba” at Ketterer on 6 May 1978.
The object Dance staff “ogo elegba” for the “eshu” cult with the object ID 3049992 was part of the auction 101st Auction on November 11, 2023. The object with the lot number 283 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,000 with an asking price of EUR 450.
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