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Lot 111

89th Tribal Art Auction

Maternity · Nigeria, Igbo · ID: 3043908

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Provenance

Gerd Hanebeck, Wuppertal, Germany

Size

H: 39 cm

H: 15.4 inch

Description

terracotta, reddish coating, base

This figure presumably was part of a shrine. The figures posted there were called “ntekpe” and they were looked upon as “children” of the shrine and it´s deity. Their function was to protect the inhabitants of the house and to help when needed.

Comparing literature

Schädler, Karl-Ferdinand, Erde und Erz, München 1997, p. 255, ill. 496

Publications

AHDRC: 0153521

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