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LOT 2395
African Wooden Fertility Figure
LOBI TRIBE, 20TH CENTURY A.D.
14 1/8 in. (425 grams, 35.8 cm).
Carved in a standing pose with a bald head, legs slightly bent, hands resting on the abdomen and an elongated neck supporting a face with bulging eyes. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Burkina Faso, West Africa.
From a Glasgow ethnographical collection; formed 1940s-1950s.
From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman.
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