Sculpture

68-2-3

From: Liberia

Curatorial Section: African

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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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