Zoomorphic figure "gbekre"
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
sold
EUR 1,800
Size
H: 40 cm
H: 15.7 inch
Description
wood, matt black patina, wearing a loincloth saturated with mass, broad teeth-revealing mouth, holding a bowl and a dagger in his hands, sacrificial traces on the head, collection number backside at the base “1392”, min. dam., cracks (left side of the head), patina partly encrusted, partly peeled off, revealing the middle brown wood underneath