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Description : Standing figure Boki, Nigeria wood, encrusted brown patina, red pigment remains, slightly bent legs are supporting a cylindrical torso with a protruding abdomen, narrow sloping shoulders merging into angled arms with the big hands resting aside the abdomen, a short neck carrying a big head with voluminous forms, circular protruding eyes, a big opened mouth, vertical scarification marks on the cheeks, dam., cracks, insect caused damage, missing parts (feet), on base, the Boki are a Bantoid group who live on both sides of the Cameroon border in the upper Cross River region. Their art shows clear affinities with the more stylized works of ethnical groups living towards the Benue, though they also use skin-covered crests stylistically derived from neighbouring Ejagham groups. H: 66 cm, (4602/008) Provenance Coll. Jean Chatelous, Paris, France Literature Wittmer, Marcilene K., Arnett, William, Three Rivers of Nigeria, Atlanta 1978, p. 81, ill. 190 Vogel, Susan Mullin, African Aesthetics, The Carlo Monzino Collection, New York 1986, p. 110 f.
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