Mallet · Nigeria, Koro · ID: 3032746
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Provenance
Robert Dowling, San Francisco, USASize
H: 113 cm
H: 44.5 inch
Description
wood, dark brown patina, in form of a highly abstract figure, carved with rings, confining the trunk, crowned by a proportionally small head with crested coiffure, min. dam., missing parts through insect caused damage, traces of abrasion, on wooden base
The object Mallet with the object ID 3032746 was last part of the auction 69th tribal art auction at June 2, 2012 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 337.
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Comparing literature
Francois Neyt, Nigerian Primitivism, Brussels 2007, p. 34 f