Miniature stone figure "nomoli" · Sierra Leone, Kissi · ID: 3034687
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Provenance
Walter Stanley Schwab, SwitzerlandZemanek-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”.
The object Miniature stone figure “nomoli” with the object ID 3034687 was last part of the auction 73rd tribal art auction at May 25, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 112.
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