Standing female figure "za mä" · Liberia, Dan · ID: 3038040
sold
EUR 1,400
Provenance
Peter Pollack, New York and Florida, USA (since the 1960’s)Size
H: 15 cm
H: 5.9 inch
Description
aluminium (most likely from imported goods from Europe), curved short arms, hairdo and loincloth with plaited band pattern, patina, handwritten collection number at the bottom of the base “P 92”;
related to genre objects called “za mä” - “brass person”. These objects which are characterized by naturalistic form, never had any religious significance, they were used by chieftains as pure decoration. The practice of creating group scenes is unique to these brasses. All brass castings are made by specialists, the “zä do mä”, the “brass working persons”.
Comparing literature
Fischer, Eberhard & Hans Himmelheber, Die Kunst der Dan, Zürich 1976, p. 177 ff.