Sculptural group with six figures seated around a central axis, made of compact wood with traces of encrusted dark patina.
NOTES - for a similar example see: Metropolitan Museum, NY, The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, “Altar: female figures”, Dogon, Mali - Diop village (Ibi).
Provenance: Parisian collection of the painter Arturo Carmassi (Lucca 1925 - Empoli 2015). This piece had come through the inheritance of the collector and humanist Renèe Druart (Grasse 1888 - 1961) whose daughter Carmassi had married.