Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![212 A fine old French Congo carved wood Figure of a Man with arms held against his chest, and wearing an unusually large domed head-dress, traces of red pigment, wood stand, 114 ¢m.; and another, smaller, Fetish from the same region, Tein. 2 213 A fine French Congo carved ivory Figure of a Man with knees bent and hands clasped to his breast, the features carved with great expression, good patination, 54 in. 214 A French Congo carved wood Ceremonial Mask, decorated with high dentate head-dress, the lips, eyes and eyebrows picked out in black, 11 7n. 215 A fine French Congo ebony Ceremonial Mask with hooded good condition, 10 in. |-|-) A Niger carved wood Mask of elongated form, the nose and + | : — lips in high relief, the head surmounted by two winged projections, 15 zn. but with a spiked finial ; from the Niger country, 134 in. 2 613) A Portuguese Congo Fetish in the form of a carved wood Figure of a Woman, of elongated form, the neck and waist deco- rated with bands of fluting and dentate ornament enriched with red, 26 zn. A fine Niger Dancing Mask of oval shape, the nose and lips. carved in high relief, the head surmounted by the ears and horns of an ibex, decorated with red pigment on a black ground, good condition, 27 in. 220 A Cameroon large Ceremonial Mask, carved in wood in the form of a grotesque animal head, with teeth bared, 14 in. 221 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 7n. long, 102 in. high (Pl. LIT] L/- 2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31813586_0083.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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