Standing female figure "nkhosi" ·  Gabon, Lumbo · ID: 3037600

Description

wood, dark brown patina, black paint, disc-shaped crested coiffure, both hands resting aside the prominent navel, slightly dam., missing part (right foot tip), trace of insect caused damage (crested coiffure, neck, back), base;
might be classified as “nkhosi” figure, representing ancestral spirits. Such figures had a divinatory function or acted to protect lineage-related relics. They were ritual tools of the “nganga”(diviner/healer).

The object Standing female figure “nkhosi” with the object ID 3037600 was last part of the auction 78th tribal art auction at October 18, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 401.

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