Sitting female figure · Nigeria, Igbo · ID: 3040709
Description
wood, brown patina, encrusted black paint, strictly symmetrical designed body, hairdo with stiff plaits, massive necklace, breast and navel accentuated, elaborate carved stool (legs and bars of the backrest), slightly dam., missing parts (right foot, stool leg), cracks, abrasion of paint, base;
may have been played with by girl children as dolls.
The object Sitting female figure with the object ID 3040709 was last part of the auction 83rd Tribal Art Auction at May 28, 2016 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 270.
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