Standing female figure with receptacle · Mali, Dogon · ID: 3044946
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Provenance
Maria Wyss, Basel, SwitzerlandSize
H: 59 cm
H: 23.2 inch
Description
wood, encrusted patina, insect causded damage, acrylic base
The bowl as a symbol for the traditional role of women, whose task is, to provide their man with food. Presumably carved in order of a man/widower who asks his ancestors for sending him a traditional woman.
The object Standing female figure with receptacle with the object ID 3044946 was last part of the auction 90.I Tribal Art and 90.II Contemporary Native American Art at November 17, 2018 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 112.
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