A Northwest Edo processional or display image

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A Northwest Edo processional or display image
the kneeling female figure holding a fan in one hand, the other supporting the child at her back, median-crested coiffure, incised ornament to the breasts, carved cloth about the loins, dark patina -- 91cm. high

Lot Essay

We are grateful to John Picton for his help in identifying this figure as from Ishua or possibly a neighbouring town such as Akoko or Akoko-Edo. Ishua is a community speaking its own Northwest Edo language though located in an otherwise Yoruba part of Nigeria

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