Figural stele · Nigeria, Ibibio · ID: 3042372
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Provenance
German Private CollectionSize
H: 91,5 cm
H: 36.0 inch
Description
wood, encrusted dark brown patina, remains of painting with red, black and white pigment, plank-shaped corpus with accentuated male genital, a long neck supporting a human head with top hat-like headdress, aglet at the chin, slightly dam., cracks, traces of insect caused damage and weathering at the bottom (presumably from stucking into the ground), base
The object Figural stele with the object ID 3042372 was last part of the auction 86th Tribal Art Auction at May 27, 2017 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 304.
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