Wood staff with iron tip, topped by seated female figure with hornbill hairstyle, cross scarification on swelling stomach, coffee bean eyes, metal rings on upper arms.
Provenance:
Paul and Ruth Tishman, New York, before 1981 to 1984
Exhibition History:
For Spirits and Kings: African Art from the Paul and Ruth Tishman Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1981
Published References:
Vogel, Susan (ed). 1981. For Spirits and Kings: African Art from the Paul and Ruth Tishman Collection. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, pp. 48-49, no. 23.
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