Lot 143
143
A FINE TABWA FIGURE, standing with arms carved free of the body and the hands placed on the abdomen, the face with carved teeth in the open mouth, cross-hatched coiffure, extensive bands of notched keloids carved in relief about the face and body, strands of white beads about the body, cotton loincloth, on domed base, dark patina

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A FINE TABWA FIGURE, standing with arms carved free of the body and the hands placed on the abdomen, the face with carved teeth in the open mouth, cross-hatched coiffure, extensive bands of notched keloids carved in relief about the face and body, strands of white beads about the body, cotton loincloth, on domed base, dark patina
28cm. high

Lot Essay

Maurer and Roberts, (1985, p.244, fig.160) illustrate a similar figure in the Lowen Collection, and a larger figure, in a similar style, which was collected in the 1880s by a German trader on the Zambesi River, was sold in Christie's, London, 13 May, 1980, lot 281

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