I agree with Tim in that this would not be an African work, but perhaps on a different basis. I don't reject te idea that Africans depict European figures in their works, namely when they work on a commission basis or in production of articles to be sold in the local market to returning Europeans. The Benin ivory works here recalled by Ibrahiim, brought back by soldiers to wealthy patrons or the religious artifacts i brought from Mozambique for my mother, made by Macondes on black wood, are a self speaking evidence.
Bit in both cases they were using their own local valuable raw materials; the carving work was the fusion. I don't see an European guy commissioning a carving work depicting his nationals on a cow powder horn.
On the other hand, if i were an expert on these thinks, i would explore the the interpretation of the figures composition, as a whole. The rider, the bird, the face in the half moon and the two angels with a different representation.
How would you ghuys see that as an approach ?
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