Object Number | 68-2-3 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Mendi |
Provenience | Liberia |
Section | African |
Materials | Wood |
Technique | Painted |
Iconography | Man |
Description | Standing naked male (penis once attached but now missing). Painted black with white undercoat. Serrated around cap. Ringed neck. Arms bent at elbows and hands clenched and perforated for holding objects now lost. Protruding navel. Steatopygous buttocks. Broad shallow groove down the backbone. Knees and toes on large feet indicated. |
Height | 37.5 cm |
Width | 13 cm |
Credit Line | Purchased from Mr. Baba Kaban, 1968 |
Other Number | 5A - Other Number |
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