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A Rare Yoruba Slave Sculpture Ex Didion Estate

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A Rare Yoruba Slave Sculpture Ex Didion Estate

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A tall carved wooden male effigy with what appears to be slave shackles carved onto the feet. The sculpture of a Yoruba male has classic facial features,ceremonial cap, kaolin clay accented around the eyes and a well handled surface. What is unusual are the shackles around the ankles, suggesting a slave or prisoner. Note that the shackles are eroded and not complete, but what remains is stable and evidence of a skilled craftsman, perhaps trying to portray a slave in bondange. The idol measures 19 inches tall ( 20.75 inches on custom display stand) Yoruba peoples, Nigeria, West Africa. Provenance: The estate of critically acclaimed essayist and novelist Joan Didion (1934-2021) New York

Condition

fair, weathered and worn, loss to shackles.

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A Rare Yoruba Slave Sculpture Ex Didion Estate

Name: A Rare Yoruba Slave Sculpture Ex Didion Estate
SKU: 160060424
Price: 200 USD
Availability: InStock

Estimate $1,000 - $2,000

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