Description:
Female Yoruba Ibeji Figure, standing on a circular base, with raised feet, legs set apart with the arms detached from the body and hands on thighs, sloping shoulders beneath the oval face (well worn),blue pigmented high coiffure, wearing strands of beads around waist, wrists, and neck, brown patina, ht. 10 in.
Provenance: Private collection, Newton, Massachusetts.
Estimate $400-600
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Keywords
NewtonAmerican Indian & Tribal Art
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