ANTIQUE AFRICAN FIGURE EKOI

Lot 418
ANTIQUE AFRICAN FIGURE EKOI

Around 1920
wood, leather
33 x 15 cm (h x w)

Starting price
2 500 CZK
   |   104 €

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Southwestern Cameroon or southeastern Nigeria, Ekoi people (also known as Ejagham), circa 1920. Authentic wooden figure with articulated limbs, human hair, and covered with antelope skin. A rare and unusual ritual object, similar to, among others, an artifact in the Metropolitan Museum, USA, museum object number 1972.4.11.