Dignitary staff with female figure

Description

wood, shiny blackish patina, elongated upper part of the body, the arms shortened with both hands up to the breast, delicate facial features with heavy-weighted three-parted coiffure and projecting ears, carved with incised concentrical ornaments, slightly dam., missing parts (left hand), rep. (both tighs), on base;
the Bane are a subgroup of the Fang, living close to the Mabea.