Post Figure

Tiv people, Nigeria, early 20th c.

Carved wood

34” h x 5” w x 5” d (86.36 x 12.7 x 12.7 cm)

Price: $5,500

 
 

Tiv figures surmounting a post were used for hunting rites and circumcision.

REFERENCES

Neyt, François, and Andrée Désirant. The Arts of the Benue to the Roots of Tradition.

Lagos: Editions Hawaiian Agronomics, 1985, pp. 15, 162, 169, 171, 174, 178, 180.

Wittmer, Marcilene K., and William Arnett. Three Rivers of Nigeria: Art of the Lower

Niger, Cross, and Benue from the Collection of William and Robert Arnett. Atlanta:

High Museum of Art, 1978, fig. 277.