Standing female figure

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Description

greyish brown patina, traces of camwood powder, voluminous forms: broad shoulders with massive arms, bulging hunchback, the head extremely flat, with incised facial features, expressive effect, sightly dam., cracks, minor missing parts (feet), on metal plate;
the Mama became especially known for their highly abstract antelope and buffalo masks. Figures are rather rare !

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Littérature comparée

Neyt, Francois, Nigerian Primitivism, Brüssel o.J., fig. II

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Publications

Bamert, Arnold, Afrika, Olten 1980, p. 160, ill. 107

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