Reliquiary figure "mbulu" or "mwete" · Gabon, Kota · ID: 3038907

Name: Reliquiary figure "mbulu" or "mwete"
SKU: 3038907
Availability: Discontinued

not available anymore

Provenance

Christie’s, Paris, 7 June 2005, lot 222

Size

H: 50 cm

H: 19.7 inch

Description

wood, metal sheet, covered with brass sheet, lateral projections with driven ornamentation, sickle-shaped coiffure, worked on a long neck with rhombic grip, originally plaited into the lid of the skull-basket, min. dam., slight traces of abrasion

The object Reliquiary figure “mbulu” or “mwete” with the object ID 3038907 was last part of the auction 80th Tribal Art Auction at June 27, 2015 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 391.

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