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West African Heddle Pulley
- Origin
- West Africa
- Period
- 20th century
- Object
- Pulley
- Materials
- Wood
- Dimensions
- approx. 15 cm high
- Catalogue
- TRB-015
An anthropomorphic heddle pulley carved with a mask-like face on a long curved neck. The face has a long slender nose, arched eyebrows and incised facial scarification, beneath a high tapering coiffure ending in a knob.
Provenance
Estate of Thomas McNemar (1931–2020), who lived and collected throughout Central and West Africa in the 1960s and 1970s and established galleries of African art in New York and San FranciscoAcquired
Hilliard & Co. · 2020
