figure
- Museum number
- Af1969,29.1
- Description
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Register 1969:
Wood carved figure, male. Its left arm is almost completely missing, and so also are the right elbow, right leg from the knee down, and left foot.
- Production date
- 1900-1963 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 121 centimetres
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Width: 16 centimetres
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Depth: 23 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- W B Fagg comment: 'Dogon ancestor figure probably dating from the end of the nineteenth century, the transitional period between the older and newer Dogon styles.'
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1969
- Acquisition notes
- Purchased at the Sotheby sale of the Tristan Tzara collection.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1969,29.1
