Height 18 1/4in (46.3cm) Provenance German Private Collection Acquired from the above by the present owner Cf. Qu'est-Ce Qu'un Corps, Musée du quai Branley, fig. 140, for a related Angoram figure. A rare variation of the distinctive figures produced in this region, finely sculpted in surrealistic form with attenuated arms and legs; the proportionally large head with a hollowed cavity in the back, arching brows above hollowed eyes, a ridged nose with flaring nostrils, pierced at the septum with a fiber cord attached; the shoulders arching way back, hands resting on the abdomen above a pelvis pointing downwards between curvilinear legs, knees delineated, joined at the bottom on a rounded form; varied light brown patina.
Height 18 1/4in (46.3cm) Provenance German Private Collection Acquired from the above by the present owner Cf. Qu'est-Ce Qu'un Corps, Musée du quai Branley, fig. 140, for a related Angoram figure. A rare variation of the distinctive figures produced in this region, finely sculpted in surrealistic form with attenuated arms and legs; the proportionally large head with a hollowed cavity in the back, arching brows above hollowed eyes, a ridged nose with flaring nostrils, pierced at the septum with a fiber cord attached; the shoulders arching way back, hands resting on the abdomen above a pelvis pointing downwards between curvilinear legs, knees delineated, joined at the bottom on a rounded form; varied light brown patina.
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