Antiquities, Pre-Columbian & Tribal Art - 10th February 2015

Lot 353

A Tsogo fetish

Estimate £600 - £800

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Description

A Tsogo fetish, Gabon, with a spherical body covered in fur and feather, a necklace with bones, nut shells, a claw and fibre, with a carved head with eliptical headdress issing a horn and further feathers and fibre, 36cm high, on a perspex stand.

Provenance -

Rene and Mercedes Lavigne, Christie's, 24th March 1988, lot 180.

Exhibited -

Geneva, 1973, no. 151.