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