Female ritual or ancestor statuette ·  Gabon, Lumbo · ID: 3032409

Description

wood, black slightly shiny patina, wrapping with copper wire (upper arm), necklace with miniature glass beads, rising from an elevated base, showing a kind of courtly posture with both hands folded in front of the body, delicate carved facial features, elaborate coiffure, slightly dam., drilled holes around the side parts of the coiffure partly broken, on base

The object Female ritual or ancestor statuette with the object ID 3032409 was last part of the auction 68th tribal art auction at March 3, 2012 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 425 achieved a sales price of EUR 2,500.

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Comparing literature

Perrois, Louis & Ch. Grand-Dufay, Visions of Africa, Punu, Milan 2008, pl. 51