Sitting female figure ·  Ghana, Fante · ID: 3035307

Description

wood, stool, lobes, breasts and arms carved separately and attached by nails, as well as the nutshell ears; a flat round face enclosed by beautiful curled lobes, the coating of middle brown patina mostly rubbed off, revealing gold coloured paint underneath, missing parts (both foot tips, both arms, and two further lobes, originally placed at the back of the head), rep. (both thighs and two of the lobes broken), cracks, plate;
probably part of a grouping of figures on a support for one of the “ntan” or “ompe” drums that form the popular drum ensembles among the Fante. It might as well have depicted a mother nursing a child and had been placed on a shrine.

The object Sitting female figure with the object ID 3035307 was last part of the auction 74th tribal art auction at September 7, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 200.

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