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Standing female figure ·  Tanzania, Nyamwesi · ID: 3034635

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Provenance
Alain Dufour, Saint Maur, France
Size
H: 35 cm
H: 13.8 inch

Description

terracotta, blackish coating, carrying a child on her back, min. dam., small missing parts, slight traces of abrasion, socle;
the Nyamwezi are an important ethnic group numbering about 250000 people. They have their homeland in the western and central regions of Tanzania. Around the middle of the 19th century they then became known as ivory traders and also as allies to the Arabs.


The object Standing female figure with the object ID 3034635 was last part of the auction 72nd tribal art auction at March 9, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 493.

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Comparing literature

Schulte-Bahrenberg, Ralf (Hg.), Tansania, Stuttgart 2007, p. 101, ill. 2


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