Female puppet ·  Gabon, Ndjabi · ID: 3039553

Description

wood, brown patina, white, black and red pigment, grass fibre, cylindrical torso without arms, nearly entirely coated by grass fibre cuff wrapped around the long columnar neck, flat face with domed eyebrows, grown together at the root of the nose, slightly dam., fine crack backside, traces of insect caused damage, metal base

The object Female puppet with the object ID 3039553 was last part of the auction 81st Tribal Art Auction at October 31, 2015 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 406.

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Comparing literature

Särnstedt, Bo et. al., Before Picasso, African Art in Swedish Collections, Liljevalch 1989, p. 128, ill. 331