Standing female figure · Nigeria, Middle Benue, Karlahi area, Ver(r)e, Toza village · ID: 3046819
sold
EUR 1,800
Provenance
Sid & Gae Berman, New York City, USA (before 1974)Size
H: 40 cm
H: 15.7 inch
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.
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.