Wearing an elaborate lobed headdress and a beaded waistbelt, and having filed teeth and red-powdered skin, this maternity figure seems to have once carried an ax and a cup, wooden imitations of the two most important chiefly attributes. Perhaps together with a male counterpart, it was secretly kept inside the ritual house, serving as a guardian of the chief’s treasure. Its style places it in the westernmost corner of Pendeland, between the Lutshima and Kwilu rivers.
- दिनांक late 1800s–early 1900s
- अधिकार: CC0
Terms
संस्कृति
Africa, Central Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Pende-style maker
माध्यम
Wood, glass beads, upholstery studs, natural fiber, and pigment
विधा
Sculpture
विभाग
African Art