Description : Colon figure: soldier Nigeria, Ibibio wood, polychrome paint, movable arms, carved with uniform and military cap, dam., missing parts (fingers of the left hand), abrasion, rest. (both heels), metal plate, usually there are European pieces of dress and indifferent facial traits typical for the prevailing local style. A figure resembling a European because it is equipped with a sun helmet, a uniform, a tie, a wrist watch or similar items may just as well represent an African. Africans dressed in European style can be shown as early as the time of Louis XIV when the ambassador of the King of Ardra was received in the Tuileries. H: 66,5 cm, (5148/054) H: 26.2 inch Provenance Bonhams, San Francisco, USA
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