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AFRICAN WOODEN TUGUBELE FIGURE
SENUFO TRIBE, 20TH CENTURY A.D.
8 7/8 in. (131 grams, 22.6 cm).
SENUFO TRIBE, 20TH CENTURY A.D.
8 7/8 in. (131 grams, 22.6 cm).
Carved in the round standing nude female on a socle base, with crested hairstyle and red painted detailing. [No Reserve]
PROVENANCE:
From Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa.
From an old Shrewsbury, UK, ethnographic collection.
From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman.
FOOTNOTES:
Such relatively small figures are employed by the soothsayers of the Senufo people as ‘helpers’ during their oracles and prophecies.
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