Sculpture
29-12-100
From: Mali
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 29-12-100 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Bambara |
| Provenience | Mali |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Wood | Pigment |
| Iconography | Male |
| Description | Male. Wood coloured black, except eyeballs and nails (white): inner lids and commissure of lips (red). Semicircular beard. Hands held up before breast. Commemorative Figure. The Hands are in the conventional attitude for supporting a plate for offerings. Banmana (Bambara) Upper-Senegal-Niger, French Sudan. |
| Height | 126.6 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from J. Laporte, 1929 |
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