Figural drinking receptacle for palm wine "gbene"

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Description

wood, partly encrusted brown patina, in shape of a stylized standing figure, trunk in shape of a deeply hollowed oval receptacle, legs and head originally provided with abrus seeds (now missing), min. dam., crack (head), slight traces of abrasion, base

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Littérature comparée

Schädler, Karl-Ferdinand, Encyclopedia of African Art and Culture, Munich 2009, p. 307

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Publications

Galerie Flak (ed.), Nigeria, Masters of Movement, Paris 2012, p. 58

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