Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas - 21 Sep 2023
A Kaguru figural staff
A Kaguru figural staff
Tanzania
carved a standing female with a ribbed coiffure, pierced ears and nose, with a peg inserted into her left shoulder, wearing a cloth and coin, and bead necklaces, the shaft with carved decoration,
101cm long.
Provenance
Pierre Dartevelle, Brussels, Belgium.
Sulaiman Diane, New York, USA, 1997.
Rudolph Leopold (1925 - 2010) Collection, Vienna, Austria.
By descent to Dr Elizabeth Leopold.
Dorotheum, Vienna, Tribal Art, Africa, From the Collection of Rudolph Leopold, 3 May 2011, lot 141.
James Stephenson, New York, USA.
Bonhams, New York, 15 May 2014, African, Oceanic & Pre-Columbian Art, lot 140.