Sculpture
AF1339
From: Zaire | Belgian Congo | French Equatorial Africa
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | AF1339 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Vili |
| Provenience | Zaire | Belgian Congo | French Equatorial Africa |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Wood | Shell |
| Iconography | Animal |
| Description | Cf. 30-52-2. Representation in wood of a dog, into a ring, on which hangs another ring of twisted wire. Legs broken: "medicine" remaining consists of a lump of resinous concretion on back; belly smeared with camwood powder. Attribution to Bavili is Torday's. |
| Height | 8 cm |
| Length | 34.5 cm |
| Width | 7.8 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from J. F. G. Umlauff, 1912 |
| Other Number | 1427 - Other Number |
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