Sculpture
30-49-9
From: Belgian Congo | Aruwimi District
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 30-49-9 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Mangbetu |
| Provenience | Belgian Congo | Aruwimi District |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Wood |
| Iconography | Female |
| Description | Wood. Female. Black cylindrical headdress with flat overhanging top. Wears apron similar in form to 30-49-10 but in construction resembling rather 30-49-11 and 12. See also AF 1715. For headdress, compare AF 5360, and see Van Overbergh, Les Mangbetu, pp. 129-132 and plates numbered 11 and 32, 11 and 33, 128, also pp. 575 ff. Also Schweinfurth, Heart of Africa, II, p. 106. |
| Height | 70.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Mrs. Albrecht in memory of son Charles Hahn Albrecht, 1930 |
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