Iagalganga wooden statuette. This elongated statuette... Lot 45

Iagalganga wooden statuette. This elongated statuette with stylized volumes is small in the Mumuye statuary corpus. The long arms wrap around the slender, cylindrical bust, while the flared legs, built around a succession of notches, are short. The face, with its tight features, has small round eyes, separated by a short nose with prominent nostrils, extended above the head by a sagittal ridge. Mumuye production was discovered late, in the 1960s Mumuye style - Nigeria Height: 22 cm Sitography : https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2014/arts-afrique-oceanie-pf1408/lot.58.html