Box

Box Lid

AF504

From: Zaire | Belgian Congo | Kasai District

Curatorial Section: African

Object Number AF504
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Bushongo
Provenience Zaire | Belgian Congo | Kasai District
Section African
Materials Wood
Technique Carved
Description

Wooden pigment box with lid; lid is intricatley decorated with carvings of crosshatch, diamonds and tiny raised triangle along the slanted rim on all four sides; center of lid there is a raised smooth knob; directly above on rim is a hole, there is another hole directly below on the bottom of the box; sides on the body of box are carved as well with a type of zigzaging groups of parallel lines (similiar to that on lid); carved half circles on rim of bottom of box; bottom of box is plain with smooth surface; exterior of box is dark brown; interior of box has a red hue from the pigment it once contained.

For the red pigment made of camwood.

Height 9.5 cm
Length 14 cm
Width 15.2 cm
Credit Line Purchased from J. F. G. Umlauff, 1912
Other Number 634 - Original Number | 033 - Cast Number

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