Specifications

• Height: 130 cm
• Material: wood, cotton, pigments
• Position: standing
• Gender: male
• Indigenous name: tau-tau
• Price realised: € 2.000,- hp

Provenance

Lempertz Brussels, 28-4-2007, lot 23

Publications

Additional information

This funerary figure in standing position, the hands in the traditional ‘give and take’ position. The loin cloth seems to be a ceremonial cloth or part of it, sarita or mawa.

Photo credits

Helmut Buchen, Cologne.