Urhobo Omo Ogun Warrior Ikenga Male Statue, Nigeria #896

Urhobo Omo Ogun Warrior Ikenga Male Statue, Nigeria #896 A male Urhobo statue, Nigeria, posted on a fragmentary base, sitting upright and rigidly on a one legged stool, wearing large anklets, sturdy legs leading to prominent buttocks, accentuated genitals, a slender torso with a pointed navel and a deep vertical scarification mark, wearing a necklace with an amulet in front of his chest, rounded shoulders leading to bent arms, each decorated with a large bracelet, the very long cylindrical neck supporting an elongated head with heart-shaped facial plane, an aggressively protruding open mouth with a wide row of teeth, a short nose with a broad tip, protruding eyes, on his wide forehead seven deep vertical scarification marks, on each side of the head three protruding ‘plaits’, wearing a round hat, the entire sculpture is carved from a single piece of very hard, heavy wood, traces of white kaolin, signs of age and ritual use, several cracks, the feet are broken off, incl. stand. Early t