A Mende seated female figure

A Mende seated female figure

Sierra Leone

with a ribbed coiffure and facial scarifications, a ringed neck, further scarifications to the top of the chest, the base of the back and top of the thighs, wearing a pair of heeled shoes, on a column stool and raised on an oval base, with a sticker inscribed A. 17 Nov 72 M. Pike, 5200,

56cm high.