Telar pulley
Yoruba · Nigeria
Reference: PLYTL-20
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- Height
- 18 cm
- Material
- Wood and pigments.
A typically Yoruba head tops the top end of the pulley. ritual scarification on the forehead and necklace with red ceramic beads on the neck. The…
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A typically Yoruba head tops the top end of the pulley. ritual scarification on the forehead and necklace with red ceramic beads on the neck. The body of the extribo is decorated with a set of opposite semicircular lines, in the form of a staircase. Brown patina.
Further technical information
- Attributed period
- Years 60
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Nigeria. The country associated with the catalog is shown, not the current location of the piece.
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