A Yoruba standing female figure

A Yoruba standing female figure
Abeokuta, Nigeria
with a tied coiffure and holding a staff with an arrow head termimal in each hand, with remains of cam powder, the base with a handwritten label An African Idol given to a Missionary at Abeokuta by a Native Convert,
25.5cm high.

Provenance
Kenneth Athol Webster, London / Wellington.
Josef Herman, London / Suffolk.
Christie's, Amsterdam, The Joseph Herman Collection of African Art, 12 December 2000, lot 146.