Standing female figure ·  Nigeria, Middle Benue, Karlahi area, Ver(r)e, Toza village · ID: 3046819

Description

wood, base

Only very few figures are known from the Vere. The earliest collected examples, three female figures, entered the British Museum in London in 1913.

In 2005 Fardon and Stelzig published some figures from the Jos Museum in Nigeria and from the collection of Karl-Ferdinand Schädler (Fardon and Stelzig 2005, p.123). This figure could be from the same hand or workshop as these figures.

The object Standing female figure with the object ID 3046819 was last part of the auction Voyage Tribal Art - Live Online Auction at May 23, 2020 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 183 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,800.

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Comparing literature

Fardon, Richard & Christine Stelzig, Column to volume, London 2005, p. 118 ff. Berns, Marla C. et. al., Arts of the Benue River Valley, Los Angeles 2011, p. 244, ff.