Lot no. 100
100. ZANDE HEADREST AND CONTAINER, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
eringa
wood, bark, metal, shells
Length 34 cm
For a similar headrest also with brass inlay to the top, collected by Dragotin Lerman between 1882 and 1896 and today in the Ethnographic Museum, Zagreb, see Sremac, S. and Zivković, M., 'The Lerman Collection of Art from the Congo', in Tribal Arts Magazine, no.101, Autumn, 2021, p.60.
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African, American and Oceanic Art
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