Standing female figure ·  D. R. Congo, Hungana · ID: 3033850

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.

The object Standing female figure with the object ID 3033850 was last part of the auction 71st tribal art auction at November 24, 2012 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 376.

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Comparing literature

Felix, Marc L., 100 Peoples of Zaire and their Sculpture, Brüssel 1987, p. 43, ill. 17