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<p>[QUOTE="Moni, post: 9605153, member: 84076"]Thank you ALL for your input!</p><p><br /></p><p>I obtained my statuette from a dealer in Nairobi, Kenya in 2007 together with other African objects and masks.</p><p><br /></p><p>The statuette is made of heavy red wood and is 25 cm high and without any trace of leather.</p><p><br /></p><p>Following your suggestion about Pere peoples culture I found an interesting and very similar object with the following explanation:</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4"><i>"Authentic janus Mbuti fertility statuette Pere Bambuti pygmies Ituri D. R. of Congo pygmy statue figure Zande Azande Boa african tribal art"</i></font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p>Unless it was left to rotten in the ground for some time to looks old it didn't seems to be made for sale. But nowadays, who knows......</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.etsystatic.com/19204832/r/il/e727a3/5130294327/il_1140xN.5130294327_i7x3.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/1427578096/authentic-janus-mbuti-fertility" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/1427578096/authentic-janus-mbuti-fertility" rel="nofollow">https://www.etsy.com/listing/1427578096/authentic-janus-mbuti-fertility</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Moni, post: 9605153, member: 84076"]Thank you ALL for your input! I obtained my statuette from a dealer in Nairobi, Kenya in 2007 together with other African objects and masks. The statuette is made of heavy red wood and is 25 cm high and without any trace of leather. Following your suggestion about Pere peoples culture I found an interesting and very similar object with the following explanation: [SIZE=4][I]"Authentic janus Mbuti fertility statuette Pere Bambuti pygmies Ituri D. R. of Congo pygmy statue figure Zande Azande Boa african tribal art"[/I] [/SIZE] Unless it was left to rotten in the ground for some time to looks old it didn't seems to be made for sale. But nowadays, who knows...... [SIZE=4][/SIZE] [IMG]https://i.etsystatic.com/19204832/r/il/e727a3/5130294327/il_1140xN.5130294327_i7x3.jpg[/IMG] [URL]https://www.etsy.com/listing/1427578096/authentic-janus-mbuti-fertility[/URL][/QUOTE]
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