Standing ancestor figure

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Description

wood, blackish brown patina, kaolin, a long neck carrying a comparatively small head with high-crested coiffure, circular eyes and large ears (Mumuye women used to wear such big wooden plugs in the ears), min. dam., cracks, minor missing parts, slight traces of abrasion, metal plate

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Littérature comparée

Eisenhofer, Stefan, Hahner-Herzog, Iris u.a., Mein Afrika - Die Sammlung Fritz Koenig, München, London, New York 2000, p. 98 ff.

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