wood, middle brown patina, blackened in parts, eight teeth, surmounted by an anthropomorphic head with open-worked headgear, carved with a necklace with cross pendant, min. dam., slight traces of abrasion, base;
because of certain style characteristics present comb can be attributed to the same artist like a comb from the William Brill Collcetion that was offered at Sotheby's New York (lot 148) in 2006. For a further closely related example formerly in the Schindler Collection see Cole and Ross (1977: 52, figure 89)
H: 27,5 cm, H: 10,8 inch
Provenance:
collected in the 1970s
Lit.: Cole, Herbert M. & Doran H. Ross, The Arts of Ghana, Los Angeles 1977, p. 52, ill. 89
Continent: Africa

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