Sculpture

29-94-136

From: Tanzania

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number 29-94-136
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Tanzania
Locus Usambara Mountains near Tanga
Section African
Materials Clay | Wood
Iconography Man
Description

Black clay (do not wash). Hollow. Face polished; otherwise textile surface. Head shaved; eyeballs and nostrils pierced; long pierced ear lobes. Enveloping cape; feet flat; wide armband incised behind right hand which holds large wooden spear; left hand not shown. Foot broken off. Same group of people as 29-94-135.

Object is broken into 4 pieces.

Height 23 cm
Credit Line Received from various sources, pre-1929

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