Sculpture
AF598
From: Zaire | Kasai District | Belgian Congo
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | AF598 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Basonge |
| Provenience | Zaire | Kasai District | Belgian Congo |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Wood |
| Iconography | Man |
| Description | Standing wooden fetish figure; male; triangular shaped face; shallow vertical groove on back of neck; rounded hair line: oval shaped eyes; flat triangular nose; closed mouth, slight V shaped; arms at side with hands on torso; legs bent; round base; hole through side of head. Anthropormorphic. Observe the semitic type of image due to the fac tthat the Basonge were long under Arab rule. |
| Height | 18.2 cm |
| Width | 6 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from J. F. G. Umlauff, 1912 |
| Other Number | 23A - Field No SF | 89 - Other Number |
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