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94 148 Karel Nel SOUTH AFRICAN 1955– Memory Drawing: Ceremonial Seat in the Form of an Alligator’s Head signed with the artist’s initials and inscribed with ‘Siege ceremonial in forme de tête d’aligator. Site de Papaguyo N. O. du Costa Rica a.p. JC. 1200–1600. Musée de l’Homme, Paris’. graphite and Conté chalk on handmade paper 70 by 100 cm R20 000 – 30 000 LITERATURE Rory Doepel (1993). Karel Nel: Transforming Symbols , Johannesburg: Foundation for the Creative Arts, a work from the same series, shown hanging in the artist’s studio, is illustrated in black and white on page 10.