Janushead · Nigeria, Igbo · ID: 3044743
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Provenance
Peter Loebarth, Hameln, GermanySize
H: 24 cm
H: 9.4 inch
Description
terracotta, base
Headpiece of a “ntekpe” shrine figure once adorning the altar of a healer-diviner. “Ntekpe” ususally shows a male and a female figure sitting back to back. A comparable terracotta from the Kuhn Collection was auctioned at Sotheby’s New York in 1991.
The object Janushead with the object ID 3044743 was last part of the auction 90.I Tribal Art and 90.II Contemporary Native American Art at November 17, 2018 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 186.
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Comparing literature
Sotheby's, New York, "The Kuhn Collection of African Art", 20 November 1991, Lot 43 (AHDRC 0099557)