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"Neck Support - Hadiya, Ethiopia - First Half Of The 20th Century "

NECK REST
Hadiya, Ethiopia
First half of the 20th century
Wood and leather
H.: 21; W.: 20.5; D.: 5 cm

Single piece of wood, entirely openwork with columns incised with hatched patterns, concave tray and leather suspension strap.

Bibliography: A similar example is reproduced in Odilon Audouin's Appuis-nuque de la Corne de l'Afrique (Neck Rests from the Horn of Africa), p. 60, and another in La tête dans les étoiles, Appuis-nuque d'Afrique et d'ailleurs (Head in the Stars, Neck Rests from Africa and Elsewhere) by Pierre Loos, Thomas Bayet and Sophie Caltaux, p. 85.

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