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Carving of Emile Torday on Horseback

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Emile Torday. Yoruba Tribe. 18" long x 22" h x 3.5" w. Good Condition. Quality Rating: 1 Est. $800-1,200 Shipping $45 Emil Torday (1875–1931), who left Europe for the Belgian Congo in 1900, employed first by the Belgians and later by the British Museum. He eventually learned local languages and came to adopt an informed understanding of the African peoples (including the Kuba) he befriended and admired. As Torday later wrote, "I had not the slightest desire to see Europe again, and if it had been possible I would have stayed on for the rest of my life." Emile Torday collected nearly 3,000 objects and established standards of ethnographic research techniques

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