A tall carved wooden post featuring a stylized anthropomorphic form, incised linear designs and obvious age and weathering. This post was carved from incredibly dense and heavy mahogany wood, it must have taken generations for the wood to weather as it has. The Bongo peoples of western South Sudan erect large wooden sculptures as commemorative monuments of important members of the community. This post has been professionally custom mounted to a wooden and measures 57 inches tall x 6 inches wide. Bongo peoples, Sudan, Africa. Provenance: A Private American collection since the 1980s.

Fair, well weathered and worn, what remains is like steel.