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Posts : 8220 Join date : 2009-09-21 Age : 75 Location : Cape Town South Africa
Subject: Re: Carved Stick Wed Mar 05, 2014 1:51 pm
Hi Steve Made on mass in Kenya, sorry if you paid a lot for it! The same figure is used on sticks salt and pepper pots and a host of other items. The tourist markets are flooded with them. Cheers Mate
rusteze
Posts : 2872 Join date : 2010-06-02
Subject: Re: Carved Stick Wed Mar 05, 2014 2:53 pm
Thanks Springy - not a major item of expenditure I'm pleased to say.
Steve
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Subject: Re: Carved Stick Wed Mar 05, 2014 5:55 pm
any clue on this little lady? she's carved from a single piece of a hardwood, very heavy, ive had her over thirty years..would love to know what part of Africa she came from. seems to have some age..
Posts : 8220 Join date : 2009-09-21 Age : 75 Location : Cape Town South Africa
Subject: Re: Carved Stick Wed Mar 05, 2014 6:14 pm
Les Ive seen similar in Mombasa.
Cheers
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Subject: Re: Carved Stick Wed Mar 05, 2014 7:15 pm
Many thanks Frank..Kenya eh second largest city. feels like a tribal piece, but i don't know! if you have the time how about these two.the lady is 8 ins high very heavy, looks like an ebony hard wood, and the man is about 6 ins high made of stone, really very heavy a bit like granite, the isiCoco was made by myself using a rubber hoover belt, suitably aged over time. cheers mate xhosa
Posts : 947 Join date : 2011-10-21 Location : Algoa Bay
Subject: Re: Carved Stick Thu Mar 06, 2014 4:57 am
Hi Xhosa, IMO Masai. Stature and leg ornamentation seems to support that.
regards
barry.
PS; if it were not for the ornamentation could be Amathonga ( n.e. Zululand south of Mocambique border)
Frank Allewell
Posts : 8220 Join date : 2009-09-21 Age : 75 Location : Cape Town South Africa
Subject: Re: Carved Stick Thu Mar 06, 2014 6:33 am
Les. Time to put my head on a block. (no pun intended ). In the valley of the kings there is a farm called Maweni. I really don't know if it still exists, its years since I was in that area. Anyway there were a family of carvers on that site and the one head looks so close to the work they produced. [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.] This one of mine from that area. But there again mate Im no expert.
Cheers
Need to add, the stone is most probably Soap Stone.
Frank Allewell
Posts : 8220 Join date : 2009-09-21 Age : 75 Location : Cape Town South Africa
Subject: Re: Carved Stick Thu Mar 06, 2014 11:34 am
Sorry Les should have added the female looks very Kenya, Masai. Would agree with Barry on the others.
Cheers
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Subject: Re: Carved Stick Thu Mar 06, 2014 12:33 pm
Thanks lads.. great breadth of knowledge! yes Masai i agree, see what you mean springbok about the similarity in the carving but your piece looks huge! very nice.xhosa
Frank Allewell
Posts : 8220 Join date : 2009-09-21 Age : 75 Location : Cape Town South Africa
Subject: Re: Carved Stick Thu Mar 06, 2014 12:58 pm
Less Its around 18 inches high. We bought it on a family trip to Natal, my daughter dubbed it 'headache' that was around twenty years ago, its remained that ever since. Weighs around 12 kilo so I took it on board as hand luggage on the way back and pretended it was light as a feather, nearly broke my bloody shoulder bag and shoulder.
Cheers
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Subject: Re: Carved Stick Thu Mar 06, 2014 7:45 pm
Cheers for that mate, ive just got home and hearing about ' headache ' made me grin! i cant believe you took that on as hand luggage!.