Tribal Art & Antiquities - 21st February 2018
Lot 274
A Yoruba Shango wand Nigeria wood with beads
Estimate £300 - £400 | Hammer £1600
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Description
A Yoruba Shango wand
Nigeria
wood with beads, the standing female with a five part lobed coiffure and a thunder axe crest with incised decoration, with a worn face, wearing a necklace and patterned costume and holding a gourd/rattle and an animal, the handle with a loop,
49cm high,
and two Yoruba Shango wands. (3)
Provenance
The Michael and Renate Lancaster collection.