Moonhead
Edward Chiwawa

'Cobalt' Stone

28cm (h)
31cm (w)
7cm (d)

£550

"This is the call for all the creatures of the night to get up and start their day."

This is a lovely example of work by one of Zimbabwe's few remaining 'first-generation' sculptors.

Edward signed it on the base.

Cobalt stone is the local Zimbabwean name given to this predominantly purple type of serpentine. It does not, as far as we know, contain any cobalt but it may originally have been found near a cobalt mine. Nowadays, it is mined near Chiweshe, in northern Zimbabwe.