Sculpture

29-94-134

From: Tanzania

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number 29-94-134
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Tanzania
Locus Usambara Mountains near Tanga
Section African
Materials Wood | Clay
Iconography Man
Description

Black clay (do not wash). Face and outer clothing polished; otherwise, textile surface. May represent missionary. Head shaved, with fillet tied on; pierced eyeballs and nostrils; large cylindrical ear pendants; wears long cloak with small cape over narrow skirt(?). Carries wooden staff in right hand; left hand not shown. Smaller wooden staff through bottom of right side of cloak (does this really belong to the figure, or is it the arrow for 29-94-132?).

Height 23.8 cm
Credit Line Received from various sources, pre-1929

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