Female tomb figure "moira goh-gjih" ·  Sudan, Bongo · ID: 3032972

Description

heavy light brown wood, well-balanced body, simple facial features with small metal eyes, the surface signed by weathering, cracks, missing part through insect caused damage, the shanks cut, on pedestal;
anthropomorphic statues like the present one were placed on memorials, which were erected together with a cylindrical stone crop about one year after the funeral took place. The figures depict the dead, who could be identified by individual characteristics such as tattoos or scars

The object Female tomb figure “moira goh-gjih” with the object ID 3032972 was last part of the auction 69th tribal art auction at June 2, 2012 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 252.

You can find more Figures and other popular object types on our related topic pages. You may also be interested in our page on African art.