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All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : African : Sculpture : Pre 1950 item #1328652 (stock #0301)
Momoyama Gallery
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Wonderful kneeling female Agere Ifa Figure from the Yoruba People made of wood and pigment, carrying a bowl. The figure has good age and shows much handling.

Such figures could well have been used in the divination process among the Yoruba called Ifa. Cowry shells, cola nuts, may have been kept in the bowl being carried by the woman...

All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : African : Sculpture : Pre 1960 item #1324555 (stock #0293)
Momoyama Gallery
$1,200.00

High quality pair of proud standing male and female figures from the Igbo people in Nigeria, made of strong and heavy wood and mounted on custom stands. The figures were made around 1950. Former collection of Dr. Heinz Werner Schmitt, Hamburg, Germany. Good condition with blackened patina and some cracks, no repairs.

Size: 47 cm height x 10 cm width.

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All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : African : Sculpture : Pre 1960 item #1313305 (stock #0260)
Momoyama Gallery
$495.00

Light-weighted wood, made around 1950, brown patina, slightly shining, wide face with elaborate headgear, the eyes inset with glass. This figure presumably was created not as a magical figure ("nkisi"), but as a memorial figure of a female ancestor, who was donated for being the female founder of the lineage. Such sculptures, called "ngudi" (mother of the lineage), used to be kept in a basket, together with further relics belonging to the kinship...