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THBAfrican Bura Asinda Sikka Pottery Figure
Lot 131
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Artemis Gallery
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Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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Africa, Niger River Valley, Bura-Asinda-Sikka culture, ca. 3rd to 11th century CE. A hand-built terracotta head of an overall phallic form with a characteristically abstract visage comprised of beady eyes with impressed pupils, a pronounced long nose, elongated protruding ears, slightly parted full lips, and a cap-like coiffure or helmet. The overall phallic form - with a delineated penis below the face - is a funerary urn created by the Bura-Asinda-Sikka culture along the lower Niger River valley in Niger and Burkina Faso. Ceramic forms like this example have been found upside down in graves, buried with their openings faced downwards, filled with belongings (cloth remnants and other objects), teeth, and some bones of the deceased as a memorial. Size: 3.3" W x 8.375" H (8.4 cm x 21.3 cm)
This traditional ritual demonstrates the Bura-Asinda-Sikka people's belief in the continuation of fruitfulness from birth to life to death to rebirth. Examples like this were initially discovered in 1975, many by farmers who were preparing their fields. Hence many Bura-Asinda-Sikka urns were accidentally broken by shovels before serious archaeological excavations began in 1983.
Provenance: private Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota, USA collection
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#158251Very light nicks and abrasions, otherwise intact and very good. Nice smooth surfaces throughout.Condition
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