Squatting female stone figure "pomdo" or "nomoli" · Sierra Leone, Kissi · ID: 3046378
sold
EUR 1,000
Provenance
Thomas Halling, Lund, Sweden (around 2002)Peter Willborg, Stockholm, Sweden
Size
H: 15 cm
H: 5.9 inch
Description
soapstone,
These stone figures were not made by the Kissi themselves, but were accidentally brought to light during field work. They are the only known remains of an empire that existed hundreds of years ago in present-day Sierra Leone and Liberia.
The object Squatting female stone figure “pomdo” or “nomoli” with the object ID 3046378 was last part of the auction 94th Tribal Art Auction at March 7, 2020 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 21 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,000.
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