Female figure ·  Guinea-Bissau, Bidjogo · ID: 3032454

Description

light weighted wood, matt middle brown patina, symmetrical body, a beautiful modelled face with simple facial features and helmet-shaped coiffure, ring-shaped loincloth, the legs subsequently cut and provided with bars for mortising the figure into the base, dam. (nose), paint rubbed off, crack, on pedestal;
the Bidyogo are a small ethnical group in Guinea Bissau, living on the Bissagos islands off the coast. Everything sacred bears the Creole name “iran”, and causes awe and respect among the people. Present figure presumably the depiction of a female ancestor.

The object Female figure with the object ID 3032454 was last part of the auction 68th tribal art auction at March 3, 2012 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 80.

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