Miniature stone figure "nomoli"
Sierra Leone, Kissi
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Provenance
Walter Stanley Schwab, SwitzerlandZemanek-Münster Würzburg, 22.9.2007, lot 177
Taille
H: 7 cm
H: 2.8 inch
Description
lime stone, a flat kneeling body with arms in flat relief, head with large arrow-shaped nose and five-parted coiffure, drilled hole for attachment, small deepening in the head, metal socle;
such figures were looked upon as “ancestors in stone”.