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AF610

From: Zaire | Kasai District | Belgian Congo

Curatorial Section: African

Object Number AF610
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Baluba | Basonge
Provenience Zaire | Kasai District | Belgian Congo
Section African
Materials Wood
Technique Carved
Iconography Human
Description

Standing wooden anthropomorphic male figure; defined jaw line; long chin with flat end; prominent brow; oval shaped eyes with a horizontal slit through the center; triangular shaped nose with defined nostrils; depression under nose, possible represents the mouth; hair line begins towards the back of the head and is raised; deep hole in the top center of head; cylindrical neck; arms form an L shape with hands placed on the sides of the stomach; prominent chest and backside; opened space between arms and body of figure;legs and feet in standing position; knees slightly bent; figure stands on rounded base (feet carved into base); object is brown in color. See AF598.

Height 9 cm
Width 2.4 cm
Outside Diameter 3 cm
Credit Line Purchased from J. F. G. Umlauff, 1912
Other Number 19 - Field No SF

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