Sculpture
29-12-14
From: Ivory Coast
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 29-12-14 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Baule |
| Provenience | Ivory Coast |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Wood |
| Iconography | Man | Captive? | Slave? |
| Description | Male. Wood, colored black except eyeballs (white), forward surface of eyelids (red), inner lips (red). Wrists bound behind back. COMMEMORATIVE FIGURE: representing a captive or slave. For the racial type compare the figure of a girl with her hands held behind her head. |
| Height | 65.6 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from J. Laporte, 1929 |
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