A RARE CHOKWE FEMALE FIGURE, kneeling with the arms raised to a tapered cylindrical vessel on the head above a Lunda diadem coiffure, a carved triangular pendant about the neck, the face with lenticular eyes, small mouth and nose, engraved lines at temples and down centre of forehead and nose, stained black with the exception of the face, pendant and part of the vessel, some shallow cracks