Male effigy from the Jo (Jomooni) initiation society Bambara culture, Koulikoro region, Mali Hardwood with black, weeping patina Height: 118 cm Provenance : Merton Simpson, New York, circa 1978 Jacob Weintraub Collection, New York, 1980 Former collection of Count Baudouin de Grunne Published by Calmels Cohen, Paris, "Arts primitifs. Arts précolombiens", 8 June 2005. Lot 378. Experts: Alain de Monbrison and Pierre Amrouche "The statue in the Weintraub collection could be by the same hand as the maternity statue in the former Schindler collection, now in the Ziff collection; the ornamentation of the two pieces, the fine scarification marks and the highly concentrated treatment of the facial features are very similar, as is the distinctive shape of the tapering shoulders. Alain de Monbrison and Pierre Amrouche, Calmens Cohen, 2005.