Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![arms held against his chest, and wearing an unusually large domed head-dress, traces of red pigment. wood stand, 114 in.; and another, smaller, Fetish from the same region, TE in. 2 bent and hands clasped to his breast, the features carved with great expression, good patination, 54 dn. with high dentate head-dress, the lips, eyes and eyebrows picked out in black, 11 zn. head-dress, the lips, eyes and ears in white, a rare piece in good condition, 10 in. 216 <A Niger carved wood Mask of elongated form, the nose and lips in high relief, the head surmounted by two winged projections, 15 in. but with a spiked finial ; from the Niger country, 134 in. 218 <A Portuguese Congo Fetish in the form of a carved wood Figure with red, 26 27. 219 A fine Niger Dancing Mask of oval shape, the nose and lips. carved in high relief, the head surmounted by the ears and horus of an ibex, decorated with red pigment on a black ground, good condition, 27 in. —~ a of a grotesque animal head, with teeth bared, 14 zn. G21) A rare Cameroon carved wood Stool or Head Rest in the form of a leopard, with curved tail supporting the rest, the body realistically carved with triangular niches, 20 zn. long, 10% in. high |Pl. IT]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31813586_0037.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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