Seated figure "nomoli" · Sierra Leone, Sherbro · ID: 3041487
Pace Gallery, New York, USA (No. 53 1063)
Description
lime stone, wreath-like headgear, dam., missing part (base), slight traces of abrasion;
such figures were found in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and on the Ivory Coast. They were used in fertility rites to grant a good rice harvest. The treatment of the “nomoli” was not affected by reference for them. If the harvest was not satisfying, it might have happened that the stone figures were whipped, sometimes until they were damaged or even destroyed.
L’objet Seated figure “nomoli” avec l’ID d’objet 3041487 a fait partie de la vente aux enchères 84th Tribal Art Auction dans 5 novembre 2016. L’objet portant le numéro de lot 125 a atteint un prix de vente de 16 000 € pour un prix d’adjudication de 5 000 €.
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Littérature comparée
Tagliaferri, Aldo & Arno Hammacher, Die steinernen Ahnen, Graz 1974, ill. 9 f.