Two calabashes with stopper ·  Tanzania · ID: 3035112

Description

pumpkin, wood, dark- and blackish brown patina, a) Kaguru, waisted form, the spherical corpus coated with fur, stopper in shape of a human head, white glass bead eyes, dam. (breakage), minor missing part; b) Zaramo, the waisted middle adorned by strings of polychrome glass beads, wooden stopper carved with janus head, crowned by a big red bead (pressed in mass), slightly dam.

The object Two calabashes with stopper with the object ID 3035112 was part of the auction 73rd tribal art auction on May 25, 2013. The object with the lot number 69 achieved a sales price of EUR 240 with an asking price of EUR 150.

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