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A BAULE FEMALE FIGURE
Ivory Coast
Seated on a stool with legs apart, the arms carved in relief with the hands each side of the navel, the incised coiffure with large central lobe and four tresses to each side, keloids about the face, neck, torso and lower back, glossy black patina.
22½ in. (57 cm.) high
Provenance
Julius Carlebach, New York, 1954

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