Standing female figure · D. R. Congo, Hungana · ID: 3033850
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Provenance
Michel Gaud, Saint Tropez, FranceSize
H: 47,5 cm
H: 18.7 inch
Description
wood, brown patina, leather belt with two white buttons, pierced navel with remains of mass, dam., missing parts through insect caused damage (feet, horns), cracks, slight traces of abrasion, on metal plate;
figures like the present were kept in ancestral shrines together with the skulls. The Hungana form one of the smallest ethnic group at the river of Kwango. Together with the Mbala they came from Angola under the leadership of Makoko.
Comparing literature
Felix, Marc L., 100 Peoples of Zaire and their Sculpture, Brüssel 1987, p. 43, ill. 17