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This is the rating and price for Staff Tefalipitya Or Daleu

Recorded provenance


Description : wood, rich slightly sticky black patina, typically crowned by a seated female figure, separately worked and fit on the staff, abundantly adorned, slightly dam., abrasion of paint, rep. (horn tip above forehead rest.), breakage (seat/back leg of the stool), cracks (staff). The sculpted figure always represents a pitya - a young unmarried woman at the peak of her physical beauty. Te-fali-pitya means hoe-work-girl.

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About the lot N° 147
Title : Staff Tefalipitya Or Daleu
Size : H: 30 cm (figure), 147 cm (inclusive staff), H: 11,8 inch
Provenance : Nagel, Stuttgart, 9 November 1999, lot 472 Heinz Kolerski, Fellbach, Germany
Literature : Vogel, Susan, For spirits and kings, African Art from the Paul and Ruth Tishman Collection, New York 1981, p. 48 f.
Condition report : See description

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