Power figure · Tanzania, Pare · ID: 3042143
sold
EUR 1,200
Provenance
Peter Loebarth, Hameln, Germany (1993)Bernhard Jäger, Frankfurt a. M., Germany
Size
H: 27 cm/31 cm (with horn)
H: 10.6 inch/12.2 inch (with horn)
Description
wood, brown patina, black paint, red pigment, eyes inlaid with white miniature glass beads, armless body with animal horn fastened to one side (closed by cloth stopper), wrapped in fabric which is covered by a thick layer of encrusted clay-like mass, slightly dam., mass missing in parts, base;
such figures served as containers for sacred substances. In case of the present figure the loading could be inserted in the deep hole in the head and in the animal horn.