Zemanek-Münster

Figure féminine assise avec coupe et couvercle ·  Nigéria, Yoruba, Oyo, Shaki · ID: 3048133

Vendu 2 600 €
Provenance
Maria Ehrensperger, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany
Rolf & Christina Miehler, Munich, Germany
Neumeister, Munich, 10 June 2010, Lot 176
Walter Grasser, Munich, Germany

Description

wood, pigment residues, base

The Yoruba used female figures carrying bowls to offer kola nuts “obi” to their guests as a sign of hospitality.

Usually these figures are depicted kneeling and the lidded bowls are carved in the form of a cock. Carvers in northern Ekiti called these figures “olumeye”, “one who knows honor”. They depicted a woman who “is a messenger of the spirits”.


Littérature comparée

Fagg, William, Yoruba, Sculpture of West Africa, New York 1982, p. 134


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