Sculpture

29-94-44

From: Zaire

Curatorial Section: African

Object Number 29-94-44
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Zaire
Section African
Materials Wood
Iconography Woman
Description

Wooden, female. With created headdress, the crest and outline over temples encrusted with shells, some missing. The neck is a very short column left by cutting a deep groove around the log from which the figure is carved, the shoulders and under side of the jaw being left flat. Features of face small, schematic, lower lip coalescing with chin. Breasts flat, triangular, navel prominent. Short legs strongly bent at knee. Extremities of limbs have been broken off or damaged.

Height 60 cm
Credit Line Received from various sources, pre-1929

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