Support pour hamac, environ 1890/1900 ·  Sierra Leone, Mendé · ID: 3043146

Description

wood, shiny dark brown patina, log with eyelets at both ends, human heads attached with wooden chain links, both carved with nearly identical facial features and grooved neck, coiffure/resp. headgear varied, min. dam., slight traces of abrasion, base

Littérature comparée

Krieger, Kurt, Westafrikanische Plastik, Bd. II, Berlin 1969, ill. 38 Hommel, William, Art of the Mende, University of Maryland 1974, ill. 75