A brass Fon sculpture; two figures, wearing patterned shorts, stand balanced on two legs, left arm uplifted to hold onto their heads between them a long wooden pole from which is suspended by two wires, a large, brass, hammock-like structure on which a third figure, male, covered in a patterned blanket is seated with right arm extended forward and pointing to the left with a long index finger. The two standing figures are secured by two screws each to a long, rectangular wooden platform. Originally made by Brass Casters' Guild in Benin Republic, purchased from junk shop in England.
figure (art)
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