Fragment of a female figure ·  Sierra Leone, Limba · ID: 3041267

Description

wood, encrusted brown patina, head with bulging forehead and prominent eyezone deepened in a horizontal line, surmounted by projecting shock of hair, rising from a long neck carved with rings, incised scarification marks on forehead, breast and back, thighs wrapped with rattan, both shanks missing, slightly dam. (chin), traces of insect caused damage, metal base

Comparing literature

Meneghini, Mario, Collecting African Art in Liberia and Neighboring Countries 1963 - 1989, o.O. 2006, p. 175, ill. 165