Standing female figure ·  Côte d'Ivoire, Agni · ID: 3034432

Description

wood, partly shiny black patina, a white string of miniature glassbeads around the hips, min. dam., cracks (back), slight traces of abrasion, feet supplemented, wooden socle;
sculptures of the Agni are quite rare, we don’t know much about them. In 1914, the renowned Liberian prophet William Harris arrived in the area of the Ivory Coast and through the fervour of his preaching induced whole populations to abandon their statues and traditional religious cults. As a consequence a lot of sculpture was destroyed.

The object Standing female figure with the object ID 3034432 was last part of the auction 72nd tribal art auction at March 9, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 281.

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