Early figurally carved cult axe
Malawi / Tanzania / Mozambique, Yao
sold
EUR 1,400
Provenance
Alexander Kubetz (1946-2023), Munich, GermanySize
L: 52 cm (shaft) / 27 cm (blade)
L: 20.5 inch (shaft) / 10.6 inch (blade)
Description
wood, brass, copper, iron, base
A series of axes by the same artist / workshop published by Krieger,1990, figs. 529-534. They are all in the Ethnological Museum Berlin. According to the museum catalogue, they were collected in 1912 and presumably come from the Nyas(s)a region.