A FINE CROSS RIVER STONE MONOLITH, akwanshi, the head with the features carved in relief, three ridges forming the brows, the eyes with hatched borders and with two vertical bands of notched keloids below each, circular mouth, V-shaped beard and scrolling hairline, the body with concentric circles perhaps indicating the navel flanked by concentric triangles

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A FINE CROSS RIVER STONE MONOLITH, akwanshi, the head with the features carved in relief, three ridges forming the brows, the eyes with hatched borders and with two vertical bands of notched keloids below each, circular mouth, V-shaped beard and scrolling hairline, the body with concentric circles perhaps indicating the navel flanked by concentric triangles
73cm. high

Lot Essay

The style of this akwanshi would seem to indicate an origin amongst the Nnam of Northern Ogoja Province. Close similarities (such as the multiple brows, notched vertical keloids and hatched borders to the eyes) are evident between this example and those from Ekulogom and Agba illustrated in Allison, 1968, plates 43-58

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