Description
topped by an Elephant dates from the 1940’s, when the government commissioned animal sculptures at Tonj .
These large sculpture come from the Bongo people of southern Sudan , large sculpted funerary or memorial were placed above tombs , among the bongo large scuptures reconized and honore male elites , warrios , chiefs or locally significants personnages , carved head were at the best idealised representation of the dead of a specific person
- Height : 95x23cm
- Material : Wood
- Estimated age : 20th Century
- Provenance: Private Collection
