Zemanek-Münster

Dance staff "ogo elegba" for the "eshu" cult

Nigeria, Yoruba, Ibarapa / Egbado
sold EUR 1,000
Provenance
Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, 6 May 1978, Lot 255
Rudolf 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


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