Female puppet · Gabon, Ndjabi · ID: 3039553
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Provenance
French Colonial CollectionSize
H: 47 cm
H: 18.5 inch
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
Comparing literature
Särnstedt, Bo et. al., Before Picasso, African Art in Swedish Collections, Liljevalch 1989, p. 128, ill. 331