Trumpet · Sierra Leone, Mende · ID: 3037777
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Provenance
Ludwig Bretschneider, Munich, GermanySize
L: 65 cm
L: 25.6 inch
Description
ivory, honey brown patina, two metal sheet applications, oval mouthpiece, carved with an anthropomorphic head, min. dam., cracks through age, slight traces of abrasion
Comparing literature
Lamp, Frederick, African Art of the West Atlantic Coast, New York 1979, p. 13, ill. 1