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Gabon

A classic guardian post for the bones of an ancestral basket; abstract formal geometry with wood covered with copper sheets of typical abstract form,  bi-planar facial features, sickle-shaped coiffure, long neck merging to a rhomb-shaped handle.
Size 62.2 cm (24.5 in) H + custom mount.
Compare to Perrois, Louis, Arts du Gabon, Paris 1979
Provenance: Private Main Line, PA Collection; Acquired from Tambaran Gallery New York, NY October 2013; Julius and Josefa Carlebach, New York; Barry Kitnick, Los Angeles; Beatrice and Philip Gersh, Beverly Hills

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