Figural group ·  Nigeria, Yoruba · ID: 3037474

Description

light-weighted wood, brown patina, remains of black paint and indigo blue pigment, kaolin, a male figure kneeling in front of a tree, turning his back on the viewer, holding a rifle in his right hand while he is reaching for the tail of an amardillo with the left, while the animal climbs up the tree and sticks its head in a hole in the trunk, the scene is crowned by a slightly vaulted pillow, dam., missing parts (base), rep., several breakages (pillow, left shoulder of the figure, tail of the amardillo), missing part (at the “trunk”) spread with mass, wooden plate

The object Figural group with the object ID 3037474 was last part of the auction 78th tribal art auction at October 18, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 342 achieved a sales price of EUR 350.

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