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.
Publications
AHDRC: 0101788