An Ife terra-cotta head of a young person, narrow almond-shapes eyes, short nose, full lips, scarification marks all over the face, small ears, leaf-like cone-formed coiffure; yellowish terra-cotta with signs of age.

Lit.: Bronzes and Terra-Cottas from Ile-Ife, H. Meyerowitz and V. Meyerowitz, The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs. Arts de L'Afrique Noire, Jean Laude, translated by Jean Decock, University of California Press Berkeley, 1966, 1. Paperback-Edition 1973. 2000 ans d’histoire africaine. Le sol, la parole et l’écrit. Mélanges en hommage à Raymond Mauny. Tome I. Paris : Société française d'histoire d'outre-mer. Ife and Raymond Mauny, by Thurstan Shaw, 1981.

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Height: 17 cm
Weight: 650 g