Sculpture

Object Number:

AF1880

Current Location:

Collections storage

Culture:

Fang

Provenience:

Gabon

Section:

African

Materials:

Wood

Iconography:

Male Head

Description:

Reliquary head. Woodened sculptured head. used to guard ancestral spirits of skulls kept in cylindrical wooden boxes in shrines.

Credit Line:

Purchased from J. F. G. Umlauff

Other Number:

1541	-	Other Number
020	-	Cast Number

[Catalogue] Plass, Margaret. 1957. African Negro Sculpture: A Walk Through the Gallery. : Page/Fig./Plate: 57

[Catalogue] Plass, Margaret. 1956. African Tribal Sculpture. : Page/Fig./Plate: 44