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Recorded provenance

Description : wood, softly luminous blackish brown patina, necklace from indigo blue glass rings, slightly dam., abrasion of paint, cracks, base. The village chief keeps mahamba that safeguard the community in an enclosure behind his residence. The mahamba spirits receive prayers and offerings to ensure their protection or to soothe them. Often a carved figure, also called hamba, is created as a home for the spirit from which the patient has been freed. Continent: Africa
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About the lot N° 487
Title : Standing Female Figure Hamba
Size : H: 23,3 cm, H: 9,2 inch
Provenance : Peter Loebarth, Hameln, Germany (collected in the 1980s) Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany (1999)
Literature : Petridis, Constantine, Art and Power in the Central African Savanna, Brussels 2008, p. 96 ff.
Condition report : See description
Zemanek-Muenster, auctioneer, Würzburg, DE It's free to register now to view!
Sale title : 87th Tribal Art Auction
Sale date : 11 Nov 2017 It's free to register now to view!
Sale Reference : Live Sale

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