Standing male ancestor figure "singiti" · D. R. Congo, Hemba · ID: 3038832
sold
EUR 7,000
Provenance
Cornelis Pieter Meulendijk, Rotterdam, The NetherlandsChristie’s, South Kensington, 22 October 1980, lot 133
Victor Skipp, Cambridge, England
Cambridge University Museum, England
Size
H: 44 cm
H: 17.3 inch
Description
wood, greyish brown patina, remains of black paint, bearded face with regular facial features and characteristic coiffure, beautiful modelled body with prominent genital, carrying a hoe over the left shoulder, beautiful detail: how the fingers are closed around the shaft of the hoe, fragmentary (right forearm as well as feet and base in the front area missing), cracks, abrasion of paint, base