Konso Male and Female Pair of Funerary Figures, Ethiopia

Ladislas and Helena Segy, New York, by 1975

The female:
Ladislas Segy, African Sculpture Speaks, New York, 1975, p. 337, fig. 492

Weathered and worn as shown in catalogue illustrations, with marks, nicks, scratches, abrasions, losses, cracks, and knots in the wood throughout. Each post is cut at the foot and fixed permanently to a modern wood base. The female figure with a black "X" on the proper right side.
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