Ritual implement with anthropomorphic head
Gabon, Punu
not available anymore
Provenance
Susan Lerer, Newport Beach, USA (1960’s - 1970’s)Size
H: 31 cm
H: 12.2 inch
Description
wood, brown patina, facial plane whitened with “pemba” (white earth), slanting eyes marked by incised lines, forehead tattoo, rising from filigree openworked corpus, slightly dam., crack (base), missing part (head), abrasion of paint, base