Roof support of a fetish hut · Burkina Faso, Mossi · ID: 3039567
sold
EUR 750
Size
H: 129,5 cm
H: 51.0 inch
Description
wood, greyish brown patina, square base, carved with a stylized anthropomorphic protection figure to the front side, crowned by bifurcated headpiece, slightly dam., traces of weathering, missing parts through insect caused damage at the bottom, metal base
Comparing literature
van Ham, Laurent, African art from the Upper Volta, Rotterdam o.J., without pagination