Figure d'ancêtre · Nigéria, Mambila · ID: 3051777
Vendu
2 500 €
Provenance
Ludwig Bretschneider, Munich, GermanyGerman Private Collection, Munich
Description
wood, pigments, base
Gebauer collected a formally comparable figure in 1940, after it was retired from service at an ancestral altar. Its local name was “tadob”.
Littérature comparée
Gebauer, Paul, Art of Cameroon, New York 1979, p. 317, M 28