Lot: 186
90.I Tribal Art and 90.II Contemporary Native American ArtJanushead
Nigeria, Igbo
Provenance | Size | Starting price / estimated price |
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Peter Loebarth, Hameln, Germany | H: 9.4 inch | This object is not available anymore. |
terracotta, base
Headpiece of a "ntekpe" shrine figure once adorning the altar of a healer-diviner. "Ntekpe" ususally shows a male and a female figure sitting back to back. A comparable terracotta from the Kuhn Collection was auctioned at Sotheby's New York in 1991.
Sotheby's, New York, "The Kuhn Collection of African Art", 20 November 1991, Lot 43 (AHDRC 0099557)