SHERBRO Sierra Leone, southern region Steatite... Lot 5

SHERBRO Sierra Leone, southern region Steatite head. This depicts the head of a male Nomoli character.The face is sculpted with features that characterise the African style of these artefacts: a faint head with a prominent nose with flared nostrils, dome-shaped eyes with protruding eyelids, large lips on the chin which includes a well-groomed beard with small tufts, thick circular ears, and a hole in the centre of the skull.It is a stylised head that evokes the characteristic face of the chief of a Sapi, a group of people who were already living in Sierra Leone’s coastal region before 1500. PROVENANCE Galleria Paolo Morigi, Lugano (1977); Collezione Walter Schwab, Berna (inv. WS 205); NOTE Lot not located at Finarte offices but in Switzerland. It could be subject to customs costs related to the importation into the buyer’s country. In any event, any customs cost and/or burden related to importation shall be borne by the buyer. For more information, please write an email to arteafricana@finarte.it