Fetish
AF663
From: Zaire | Kasai District | Belgian Congo
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | AF663 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Bahuana |
| Provenience | Zaire | Kasai District | Belgian Congo |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Wood |
| Technique | Carved |
| Description | Cephalomorphic wooden peg fetish; diamond shaped face; oval shaped eyes with three vertical notches in between; flattend triangular nose; faint oval mouth; back of head is crest shaped; thin piece of head from left side of head to base of neck, small piece of twisted fiber wrapped around this; hour glass shaped protrusion in center of peg; body of peg tapers to a slanted point. |
| Length | 17.5 cm |
| Width | 3 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from J. F. G. Umlauff, 1912 |
| Other Number | 143 - Other Number |
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