An ancient and very beautiful female funerary statue with soft and curved forms represented in a traditional gesture, one hand towards her sex and the other towards her breast, with a hairstyle of a beautiful old style sculpted in braided buns, a necklace around her neck still appears despite the erosion of time and weather. Sakalava, Madagascar Wood, traces of lichens, erosion and cracks of age, truncated in its lower part, beautiful patina of age. H. Height : 86 cm Provenance : - Probably collected by Pierre Langlois. - Collection Nadine Vinot-Postry, Paris.