Zemanek-Münster

Miniature stone figure "nomoli" ·  Sierra Leone, Kissi · ID: 3034687

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Provenance
Walter Stanley Schwab, Switzerland
Zemanek-Münster Würzburg, 22.9.2007, lot 177
Size
H: 7 cm
H: 2.8 inch

Description

lime stone, a flat kneeling body with arms in flat relief, head with large arrow-shaped nose and five-parted coiffure, drilled hole for attachment, small deepening in the head, metal socle;
such figures were looked upon as “ancestors in stone”.


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