Seated figure · Tanzania, Zigua · ID: 3035093
sold
EUR 550
Provenance
Walter Hekster, Amsterdam, The NetherlandsSize
H: 22 cm
H: 8.7 inch
Description
terracotta, greyish brown patina, covered in several stripes of cloth and plant fibre cord, a burled horn stuffed with cloth, the eyes inset with white miniature glass beads, min. dam., slight traces of abrasion;
the Zigua, or Zigula, live at the northeastern shore of Tanzania, opposite to the isle of Zanzibar, north of the Kwere.