Figure
Object Number: | AF607 |
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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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