Beautiful statue of an ancestor in an offering position, her gaze is present almost covered under her eyebrow arch and her forehead is decorated with important scarifications engraved in the sacrificial material, which she was generously nourished with, the successive accumulated layers of pigments, her necklace and the plant links on her arm testify to this. Igbo, Nigeria Wood, important sacrificial pigments, accidents and erosions, old wear, vegetable fibers, beads, very beautiful and old patina. H. 88 cm Provenance : Anne and Jacques Kerchache Collection Exhibition and Publication : Pierre Bergé et Associés sale of June 13, 2010, Anne and Jacques Kerchache Collection, lot 362 page 387.