Standing male ancestor figure "singiti" · D. R. Congo, Hemba · ID: 3038832
Christie’s, South Kensington, 22 October 1980, lot 133
Victor Skipp, Cambridge, England
Cambridge University Museum, England
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
The object Standing male ancestor figure “singiti” with the object ID 3038832 was last part of the auction 83rd Tribal Art Auction at May 28, 2016 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 392 achieved a sales price of EUR 7,000.
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