Nigeria

According to aesthetic guns' of the statuary mumuye, the body is right, stylized volumes, the long
detached arms of the bodies, turning around the chest longiligne, head and in particular legs
proportionally smaller than the remainder of the body. It is characterized by its very purified lines,
the chest treated in two reversed cones, the cylindrical neck separate good of the shoulders, the
hemispherical head with the flat face animated in its center by a broad vertical line where are
detached successively volumes stylized from the nose, the mouth and the chin, framed traditional
round eyes, the hollow of the kaolin engraving raised. Black patina, letting appear the brown color of dense wood,

Old german collection