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Description : Shrine object Idoma, Nigeria wood, magical mass, cloth, raffia, corpus in form of a bent wooden horn, the upper part covered with a stone-like magical mass, wearing a collar made of raffia fibres around the neck with a bicoloured piece of cloth affixed to it, crowned by an oval head with tribe-typical facial features and scarification marks, min. dam., missing parts, signs of abrasion, on base, because of the lack of comparable objects, the usage of this object is still unclear. H: 65 cm, (4597/011) Literature Bacquart, Jean-Baptiste, The Tribal Arts of Africa, Surveying Africa´s Artistic Geography, Thames and Hudson, London 1998, p. 89, fig. 8 Bourgeois, Arthur & Scott Rodolitz, AK Remnants of Ritual, Selections from The Gelbard Collection of African Art, New York 2003, p. 25, fig. 56a f.
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Estimate (low-high) : 1600 EUR-2400 EUR It's free to register now to view!

About the lot N° 116
Title : Shrine Object Idoma, Nigeria
Zemanek-Muenster, auctioneer, Würzburg, DE It's free to register now to view!
Sale title : 52nd Tribal Art Auction
Sale date : 24 Nov 2007 It's free to register now to view!
Sale Reference : Live Sale

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