A male Lobi sculpture of unknown origin, standing on blockshaped feet, the elongated arms carved close to the body, a short, thick neck is supporting a large globular head with flattened, t-shaped nose, framed by bulging eyes, the carved eye-brows in asymetric shape gives this old sculpture it´s peculiarity and showes a skillful carver; extremly heavy, hard wood of unknown origin, probably sankolo, but the agecracks on the left side of the figure aren´t typical for this sort of wood.,; remnants of kaolin and traces of sacrifications.

600 - 800,- Euro

Height: 63 cm
Weight: 6,7 kg