Maternity · Nigeria, Yoruba, Egba-Egbado area · ID: 3034354
Karl-Ferdinand Schädler, Munich, Germany
Zemanek-Münster Würzburg, 5. Dezember 1998, lot 41
Udo Petry, Hohnhorst, Germany
Description
wood, shiny brown patina, black paint at the coiffure, strings with miniature glass beads, carved with a cloth wrapped around the hips, supporting a child on the back, large eyes spread with mass, incised scarification marks, shaved coiffure, slightly dam., missing parts (both foot tips, the left earlap, the latter crudely remodelled with blackish mass), fissures, metal base;
depictions of mother and child and bowl-carrying women were used for offering cola nuts. They served as shrine figures for keeping sacrificial offerings and as receptacles for keeping palm nuts used for soothsaying sessions.
L’objet Maternity avec l’ID d’objet 3034354 a fait partie de l’enchère 77th tribal art auction en 28 juin 2014 pour la dernière fois le Zemanek-Münster Hôtel des ventes et avait le numéro de lot 377.
Vous trouverez ici d’autres objets et des informations utiles sur le thème Art africain.
Publications
Eisenhofer, Stefan (Hg.), Kulte, Künstler, Könige in Afrika, Linz 1997, p. 310, ill. III/11.43