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AUTHENTIC OLD FON HOHOVI TWIN FIGURE Benin, Africa.
AUTHENTIC OLD FON HOHOVI TWIN FIGURE Benin, Africa.
AUTHENTIC OLD FON HOHOVI TWIN FIGURE Benin, Africa.
AUTHENTIC OLD FON HOHOVI TWIN FIGURE Benin, Africa.
AUTHENTIC OLD FON HOHOVI TWIN FIGURE Benin, Africa.
AUTHENTIC OLD FON HOHOVI TWIN FIGURE Benin, Africa.

AUTHENTIC OLD FON HOHOVI TWIN FIGURE Benin, Africa.

$ 132

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Item must be returned within: 14 Days
  • Culture: African
  • All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
  • Restocking Fee: No
  • Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
  • Provenance: FON
  • Condition: VERY GOOD
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: Benin
  • Refund will be given as: Money Back
  • Handmade: Yes
  • Modified Item: No

    Description

    VINTAGE FON TWIN FIGURE
    This delightful female surrogate twin figure stands naked on a circular plinth, her features been worn smooth from decades of handling and feeding;
    she wears an elaborate cross-hatched hairstyle and is decorated solely with beadwork adornments. The Fon residing in Benin carve small wooden
    Hohovi
    figures used for the protection of a surviving twin, similar in purpose but different in features and body style from the Ewe
    Venavi
    twin figures.
    Source: Fon
    Country: Benin, West Africa
    Material: Wood, beads
    Estimated Age: First Quarter, 20th Century
    Condition:
    Good,
    with medial fissure & arm repair commensurate with age and use.
    Height: 7 3/8"
    0 includes USPS "Priority Mail" shipping and insurance within continental U.S.
    International buyer, add 0 shipping and remit payment within 48 hours.
    Customs and/or other importation costs (if any) are the sole responsibility of the buyer.
    Authenticity is unconditionally guaranteed
    - the Certificate of Authenticity accompanying this figure was prepared
    and signed by R.T. Rogers, retired A.S.A. Senior Member and Ethnographic Art specialist.
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    Source: Fon
    Country
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    Benin, West Africa
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    Material: Wood, paint, beads
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    Estimated Age: Second Quarter, 20th Century
    Condition: Very Good, with narrow fissures commensurate with age
    Dimensions:
    6 5/8"
    FREE SHIPPING and insurance within continental U.S.
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    Customs and/or other importation costs (if any) are the sole responsibility of the buyer.
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    In a marketplace teeming with fake “African Art” often artificially aged for quick sale to inexperienced buyers
    or bargain-hunting shoppers at impossibly low cost, it is becoming increasingly difficult to acquire genuine old
    and ethnographically significant artworks used by indigenous group members.
    Authenticity is unconditionally guaranteed -
    the Certificate of Authenticity accompanying this mask was
    prepared and signed by a longtime A.S.A. Senior Member, retired scholar and certified specialist in Ethnographic Art.
    If not to U.S. buyer’s satisfaction, this artwork may be returned as shipped within fourteen days of purchase for a purchase price refund
    minus 10% re-stocking fee for return of item in original condition and shipping materials.
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