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Female power figure "kaponya" or "hamba", D. R. Congo, Chokwe, Size: H: 17 cm (H: 6.7 inch), ID: 3046746
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Lot 247
95th Tribal Art Auction

Female power figure "kaponya" or "hamba" ·  D. R. Congo, Chokwe · ID: 3046746

sold EUR 1,400
Provenance
Charles Ratton, Paris, France
Hermann Kühn, Munich, Germany
German Private Collection (1991)
Lempertz, Brussels, 22 January 2013, Lot 162
Size
H: 17 cm
H: 6.7 inch

Description

wood, shiny patina, slightly sticky in places, rest.

Comparing literature

Petridis, Constantine, Art and Power in the Central African Savanna, Brussels 2008, p. 96 ff.

Africa
Figures

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