Standing male figure, legs proportionately very short. Left hand at beard, right holding staff which rests on ground. Wearing hat with cylindrical crown, tied with tasseled cord, and broad, flat brim; buttoned, short-sleeved jacket; pleated, knee-length skirt. Long hair. Large eyes. Beaked nose. Moustache. From accession card.
Benin City (Edo), present-day Nigeria, until 1897; [Mathias Komor Works of Fine Art, New York, NY]; J. Lionberger Davis; Princeton University Art Museum, 1968
- Provenance, 2017-04-28, Kristen D. Windmuller-Luna
Allen Rosenbaum and Francis F. Jones, Selections from The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1986), p. 240 (illus.).