Small female figure "tugubele" · Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo · ID: 3032512
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Provenance
Olivier Castellano, Paris, FranceSize
H: 20 cm
H: 7.9 inch
Description
wood, shiny brown patina, compact body, carved with bracelets, plug-shaped projecting coiffure above the forehead (reminding of a hornbills beak), min. dam., minor missing parts (base), on wooden base
The object Small female figure “tugubele” with the object ID 3032512 was last part of the auction 68th tribal art auction at March 3, 2012 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 336.
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Comparing literature
Burkhard, Gottschalk, Senufo - Unbekannte Schätze aus privaten Sammlungen, Düsseldorf 2009, p. 40 f.