Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas | Antiquities - 19th February 2025
Lot 213
A Yoruba Shango staff
Estimate £150 - £200 | Hammer £567
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Description
A Yoruba Shango staff
Nigeria
carved as a kneeling woman holding a club in each hand and with a thunder-axe headdress, wearing a red and pink glass bead necklace,
24cm high,
and a Yoruba Shango shrine figure, carved as a kneeling woman, with an axe crest, 31.5cm high, on a stand. (3)
Provenance
Zbyszek Plocki Collection, London.