Standing female figure "jo nyeleni" · Mali, Bamana · ID: 3041977

Name: Standing female figure "jo nyeleni"
SKU: 3041977
Price: 4500 EUR
Availability: SoldOut

sold EUR 4,500

Provenance

Hans Heller, fought in WW I and was a hunting friend of Hemingway. He did many famous old films on hunting lions with Massai. Heller had business throughout Africa and had an important African Art collection. He bought his objects in the 1930’s-40’s.
James Stephenson, New York, USA

Size

H: 73 cm

H: 28.7 inch

Description

wood, rich blackish-brown patina, ten metal earrings, elongated trunk with broad angular shoulders, breasts and navel particularly emphasized, slightly dam., ear holes broken out in parts, insect caused damage (coiffure), rep. (breakage at the right forearm), abrasion of paint, plate;
“jo nyeleni” figures depict the ideal of a young woman in the prime of life. They are used in a seven years term on the occasion of initiation celebrations of the “jo society”.

The object Standing female figure “jo nyeleni” with the object ID 3041977 was last part of the auction 85th Tribal Art Auction at March 4, 2017 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 124 achieved a sales price of EUR 4,500.

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