Lot 335
  • 335

A Yoruba Shango staff, Nigeria

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Description

  • 32.5 and 46.5 cm.
of light coloured wood and ebonised, carved with a human head wearing headdress carved with two addorsed human heads, traces of ochre pigment; together with another Yoruba Shango staff, carved with a kneeling female figure with tall, bi-partite headdress, with stand of metal

Provenance

Collection P. de Dood

Condition

The first with chipped base, the second with minor age cracks.
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