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AF597

From: Zaire | Kasai District | Belgian Congo

Curatorial Section: African

Object Number AF597
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Basonge | Baluba
Provenience Zaire | Kasai District | Belgian Congo
Section African
Materials Wood
Technique Carved
Iconography Human
Description

Standing wooden anthropomorphic male figure; diamond shaped face; protruding forehead; oval shaped eyes; triangular shaped nose; closed mouth; ears carved on either side; hair line begins at center of head forming an arch, incised with cross hatch pattern on front and back of hair has five vertical braided rows; long neck; arms form an L shape with hands placed on a protruding torso; opened space between arms and body of figure; prominent back side; legs with rectangular shaped feet, fixed to round base; object is dark brown in color.

Height 18 cm
Width 5 cm
Outside Diameter 5.5 cm
Credit Line Purchased from J. F. G. Umlauff, 1912
Other Number 44 - Other Number

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