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A RARE ANTHROPOMORPHIC TSONGA HEADREST ZIMBABWE, 19TH CENTURY Of good colour and patina through use, with old paper label: 'African Pillow Bt. Webster. Sep 1897. P.'11.5cm high, 15cm wide Provenance: Ex Pitt Rivers Museum collection, inventory number: '1342'Ex Webster collection, 1897 Galerie Monbrison, Paris, France, 2012 Ex Private collection Literature: Illustrated in: 'A Naturalist in the Transvaal', W. L. Distant; London, 1892, pg. 102, no. 7 (described as Magwamba Head-Rest)
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