Tête janus
Nigéria, Igbo
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Provenance
Peter Loebarth, Hameln, GermanyTaille
H: 24 cm
H: 9.4 inch
Description
terracotta, base
Headpiece of a “ntekpe” shrine figure once adorning the altar of a healer-diviner. “Ntekpe” ususally shows a male and a female figure sitting back to back. A comparable terracotta from the Kuhn Collection was auctioned at Sotheby’s New York in 1991.