Ornament

AF932

From: Zaire | Kasai District | Belgian Congo

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number AF932
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Bahuana
Provenience Zaire | Kasai District | Belgian Congo
Section African
Materials Ivory
Description

Ivory, anthropomorphic ornament. Ornamentation is very faint. Round head, with square like body. Hole through side of neck of object.

Worn by the circumcised.

Similiar to AF927

Length 4.5 cm
Width 2.7 cm
Credit Line Purchased from J. F. G. Umlauff, 1912
Other Number 6607-23 | 186 - Other Number

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