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Object Number:AF607
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Baluba
Basonge
Provenience: Zaire
Kasai District
Belgian Congo
Section:African
Materials:Wood
Fiber
Technique:Carved
Iconography:Human
Height: 13.5 cm
Width: 3.6 cm
Outside Diameter:3.7 cm
Credit Line:Purchased from J. F. G. Umlauff, 1912
Other Number:20 - Field No SF

Description

Standing wooden anthropomorphic male figure; defined jaw line; prominent brow; oval shaped eyes with a horizontal slit through the center; triangular shaped nose with defined nostrils; protruding closed mouth; hair line begins towards the back of the head, front incised with vertical lines, hole in the top center of head (type of fiber is found in hole); cylindrical neck; arms form an L shape with hands placed on a protruding stomach; opened space between arms and body of figure;legs and feet in standing position; knees slightly bent; figure stands on rounded base; object is light brown in color. See AF598.

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