African Wooden Fertility Figure

YORUBA TRIBE, MID 20TH CENTURY A.D.

19 1/8 in. (1.1 kg, 48.5 cm).

Carved in the round standing male figures with tall hatched headdress extending to the rear, hands placed either side of his distended abdomen, knees flexed, standing on a plano-convex base. [No Reserve]

Provenance

From South West Nigeria, West Africa.
From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman.

Footnotes

The Yoruba are the largest nation in Africa with an art-producing tradition. Their figures, more often of Shango (also spelled Sango and Sagoe), deity of thunder and lightning are carved from wood and kept in shrines.

CONDITION

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LOT 2329