A female Dan statue, from the region de Man, village Dankouma, Ivory Coast/Liberia, standing on large feet, bent muscular legs ending up in prominent buttocks, a columnar torso with a pointed navel and hanging, tapering breasts, powerful shoulders terminating in arms held away from the body and slightly bent forward, short hands, the ridged cylindrical neck supporting an ovoid head with a pointed chin, a large mouth with full lips, a short nose with a broad tip, slit eyes, large ears with a significant tragus, the abdomen covered with leaf-shaped scarification marks, further scarification marks on the backside, the head is capped by a striated three-parted coiffure; brown to blackened encrusted patina with remnants of white kaolin, traces of age and ritual use. Provenance Mohamed Belo Garba.

Lit.: Eberhard Fischer and Hans Himmelheber: The Arts of the Dan in West Africa, Museum Rietberg, Zürich, 1984; Eberhard Fischer: Dan Artists: The Sculptors Tame, Si, Tompieme and Sõn- Their Personalities and Work, Zurich, 2014; MetMuseum Dan Female Figure; Burkhard Gottschalk: Kunst aus Schwarz-Afrika. Zeugnisse der Meisterschaft afrikanischer Schnitzer aus privaten Sammlungen. Band 2, Düsseldorf 2007.

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Height: 33,5 cm
Weight: 600 g