Heddle pulley with anthropomorphic head ·  Côte d'Ivoire, Guro · ID: 3039463

Description

wood, blackish brown patina, encrusted in some areas, A-shaped corpus with thin crossbar and without bobbin, crowned by a girls head with forehead scarifications and tripartite hairdo, drilled hole at the back of the head, slightly dam., minor missing parts (backside), abrasion of paint, acrylic base

The object Heddle pulley with anthropomorphic head with the object ID 3039463 was last part of the auction 81st Tribal Art Auction at October 31, 2015 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 242 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,100.

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