Standing miniature figure ·  Mali, Dogon · ID: 3037853

Description

wood, partly shiny brown patina, remains of pigments, characteristic features: form and posture of the body, c-shaped ears and arrow-shaped nose, min. dam., fine cracks, slight traces of abrasion, base;
presumbly once owned by a medicine man who used to keep a variety of such small figures in a special bag.

The object Standing miniature figure with the object ID 3037853 was last part of the auction 78th tribal art auction at October 18, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 170 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,500.

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