Female puppet ·  Gabon, Ndjabi · ID: 3039553

Description

wood, brown patina, white, black and red pigment, grass fibre, cylindrical torso without arms, nearly entirely coated by grass fibre cuff wrapped around the long columnar neck, flat face with domed eyebrows, grown together at the root of the nose, slightly dam., fine crack backside, traces of insect caused damage, metal base

Littérature comparée

Särnstedt, Bo et. al., Before Picasso, African Art in Swedish Collections, Liljevalch 1989, p. 128, ill. 331