Zemanek-Münster

Kneeling figure "onile" ·  Nigeria, Yoruba · ID: 3035255

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Provenance
German Private Collection, Hamburg, collected in situ (1959 - 1965)
Size
H: 12 cm
H: 4.7 inch

Description

brass with patina, showing the typical “ogboni” gesture, horn-like coiffure, min. dam., small missing parts, traces of corrosion


The object Kneeling figure “onile” with the object ID 3035255 was last part of the auction 74th tribal art auction at September 7, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 280.

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Comparing literature

Witte, Hans, Earth and the Ancestors, Ogboni Iconography, Amsterdam 1988, p. 144, ill. 56


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